ATU 3 Simulated Injury (previously Sham Blood and Brains)

ATU 3

Simulated Injury (previously Sham Blood and Brains)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear. 1 variant
Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out). 1 variant
Deception by sham blood. By stabbing bag of blood (or otherwise) trickster makes dupe think that he is bleeding. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.