Deceptive agreement to kill wives (children). Trickster shams the murder; dupe kills his

Motif

Deceptive agreement to kill wives (children). Trickster shams the murder; dupe kills his.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Deception into killing own family or animals. · view the constellation · filed as K944

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
AfricaWeeks Jungle 384, (Thonga): Junod 217, (Fang): Einstein 155, (Cameroon): Meinhof 70, 73, Lederbogen 77, (Fjort): Dennett 85 No. 20, (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 56, (Jaunde): Heepe 105, (Wachaga): Gutmann 186f.
general *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 241

Within the index

Filed under Deception into killing own family or animals.

Filed beside it

Man betrayed into eating his own children Man betrayed into killing his wife or grandmother Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property Angry man kills his own horse by mistake. Trickster has shifted the places of his horse and that of the dupe Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre Bird flies on head of dupe's child. Dupe strikes at bird and kills child King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion King lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews

Travels with

Man betrayed into eating his own children and setting the village on fire. (Cf. K941.2, K944.)

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