Trickster employed to educate baby crocodiles: he eats them instead.
Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. · view the constellation · filed as K931.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Sham nurse kills enemy's children.
Carried in tale types
- The Fox (Jackal) as Schoolmaster (previously The Fox Persuades the Magpies into Bringing their Young into his House) · ATU 56B 1 recorded variant
ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “crocodiles” · wander