Post-hole murder: people invite boy to enter post-hole and then try to crush him with log

Motif

Post-hole murder: people invite boy to enter post-hole and then try to crush him with log.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K959.6

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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.

Oceania*Lessa MS.

Within the index

Filed under Other kinds of treacherous murder.

Filed beside it

Murder by putting mouth of pot over victim's head Murder in one's sleep Tent torn down over man, and he is then killed Murder from behind Thorns planted so that birds are killed when they light on field

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