Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. · view the constellation · filed as K932

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 38 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 303 n. 109a.

Within the index

Filed under Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges.

Filed beside it

Sham nurse kills enemy's children Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic garment (robe, tunic) Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Killed game revives and flies away Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Person eats self up Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving Person frightened into falling down a cliff Deceptive scratching contest

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