Victim pushed into water

Motif

Victim pushed into water.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Murder by strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K926

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1260.

Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

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 Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse 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 Slaughter of animals by stampede Murder through transformation Murder by strategy – miscellaneous

Travels with

Woman ordered to strip has lover turn his back; pushes him into water (pit). (Cf. K551.4.3, K926, K1210.)Murder by drowning. (Cf. K926.)

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