Crab carried by crane, clings round his neck and cuts off his head with pincers.
Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K953.3
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 260.