Sham nurse kills enemy's children.
Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. · view the constellation · filed as K931
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 1144
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 19ff.
- Indonesia DeVries's list No. 23
- N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 300 n. 97
- S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 179
- Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 44 No. 5, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 388 No. 14, (Zulu): Callaway 24, (Kaffir): Theal 111, (Benga): Nassau 125 No. 12
- American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 344 No. 60.
- general *Type 37
- general *Dh IV 247
- general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 93ff.
Within the index
Filed under Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges.
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- The Fox as Nursemaid for the Mother Bear · ATU 37 1 recorded variant
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