Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal — Mythoi

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

Filed across the traditions

Danish Christensen DF XLVII 200 No. 36
Icelandic Boberg
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3309, Legends Nos. 605 609
Estonian Aarne 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 1343 1 recorded variant

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