Catch tale: teller is killed in his own story

Motif

Catch tale: teller is killed in his own story.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z13.2

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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.

general Canada, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer.

Filed beside it

Tale-teller frightens listener: yells "Boo" at exciting point

Carried in tale types

Teller Is Killed in his own Tale · ATU 22021 recorded variant

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