μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Accidental death through misdirected weapon.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Accidental killing or death. · view the constellation · filed as N337

Filed across the traditions
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Filed under Accidental killing or death.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Blind poet unintentionally kills friend Hero, while measuring wild boar, accidentally wounded mortally by bristle Axe thrown at one animal misses but kills another
Filed beside it
Things accidentally fall and kill person Accidental poisoning Aiming at fly has fatal results Accidental fatal ending of game or joke Unexpected death at hands of an animal Accidental death through dream. Man dodging blow in dream hits his head against wall and kills himself Death as result of mistaken identity: wrong person killed Accidental death – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic meat Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) Immortality by burning Protean transformation of water-spirit Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms

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