Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse — Mythoi

Motif

Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Murder by strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K916

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian (Blackfoot) Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 57.
general *Chauvin V 84 No. 24 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

1 finer motif beneath it

Peacock helper dances before enemy army of hero; flame of fire from her tail burns them all to ashes

Filed beside it

Feigning death to kill enemy Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast Murder from ambush Treacherous murder during hunt Man murdered while praying Fox 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 water Artificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killed Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes Person cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.) Victim pushed into fire Victim pushed into water Slaughter of animals by stampede Murder through transformation Murder by strategy – miscellaneous

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