Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal

Motif

Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Accidental killing or death. · view the constellation · filed as N334.2

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

DanishChristensen DF XLVII 200 No. 36
IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3309, Legends Nos. 605 609
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 122 Nos. 40, 41.
general Wesselski Theorie 18
general Fb "hænge" I 731b

Within the index

Filed under Accidental fatal ending of game or joke.

Filed beside it

Children play hog-killing: one killed Practical joker asks doctor to castrate him. Doctor insists on the operation

Carried in tale types

Hanging Game · ATU 13431 recorded variant

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