Pretended exchange of confidences as to the one thing that can kill

Motif

Pretended exchange of confidences as to the one thing that can kill.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Other fatal deceits. · view the constellation · filed as K975.1

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
N. Am. Indian*Thompson PMLA XXXVII 133.

Within the index

Filed under Secret of strength treacherously discovered.

1 finer motif beneath it

Hero tells enemies how he may be killed

Filed beside it

Secret of external soul learned by deception

wander