μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Bear killed from ambush as he leaves his caveRock hurled down hill slays enemy passing belowSlaying under cover of darkness
Filed beside it
Feigning death to kill enemyRobbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter houseDisguised hero attacks enemy at feastDancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruseTreacherous murder during huntMan murdered while prayingFox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the waterArtificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killedMurder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizesPerson cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.)Victim pushed into fireVictim pushed into waterSlaughter of animals by stampedeMurder through transformationMurder by strategy – miscellaneous

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