Animal killed by forcing ball (of hide, wax, etc.) into throat.
Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K951.5
Motif
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.
- Greek*Robinson Works of Chaucer 966
- IndiaThompson-Balys.