μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general Boje XIX 61, 64
Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

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Feigning death to kill enemyRobbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter houseDisguised hero attacks enemy at feastMurder from ambushDancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruseMan 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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