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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| K735.4 | Capture in trap bed: victim dropped into dungeon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K735.4.1 | Pit placed under a bed. Alu: Wheeler No. 2; Telei: ibid. No. 18. |
| K735.5 | Dupe tricked into well: left there. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K735.6 | Tiger enticed into pit by being tempted to leap after boar-leader. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 819. |
| K736 | Snapping door. Traps victims. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 307 n. 113. |
| K737 | Capture by closing entrance to victim's home. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 258 No. 38, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 366 No. 17. |
| K737.1 | Dupe lured into hole and entrance closed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K737.2 | Tiger persuaded to walk into house: locked in. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K741 | Capture by tarbaby. An image covered with tar (or other adhesive substance) captures the intruder who addresses it and finally strikes it so that he sticks to it. *Type 175; **Cline American Literature II 72ff.; **Espinosa JAFL XLIII 129ff., LVI 31ff., Las versiones hispanicas peninsulares del cuento del muсeco de brea (Estudios dedicados a Menendez Pidal [Madrid, 1951]) 357—81, Sobre los origines del cuento del muсeco de brea (Bol. de la Bibl. Menendez y Pelayo XIII 296—318); *Dh IV 26; **Parsons FL XXX 227, JAFL XXXV 330; *Taylor JAOS LXIV 4ff.; Brown Scientific Monthly XV 228; Werner Folklore X 282.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 77 No. 650; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 336, 442; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 440, 444ff.; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis VIII 105, IX 106, XII 319, Weeks Jungle 431, (Angola): Chatelain 185 No. 22; (Hottentot): Theal 90, (Yoruba): Ellis 255 No. 4, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 71, (Kaffir): Kidd 242 No. 9, (Ekoi): Talbot 397, (Mpongwe): Nassau 22 No. 2, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 356 398, (Cameroon): Gantenbein 69, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 74, Fables 59; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 7 No. 2; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 244 Nos. 20, 21. |
| K741.1 | Capture by tarring back of a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K742 | Capture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get loose. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K743 | Victim captured in a noose. Maori: Beckwith Myth 250, Clark 100. |
| K745 | Victim burned in building. Mono: Wheeler No. 34; Alu: ibid. 17, 35; Papua: Ker 7, 17, 36, 73; Aurora: Codrington No. III 12; Lepers Island: ibid. No. III 17. |
| K750 | Capture by decoy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K751 | Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.) *Types 47A, 56A; Chauvin III 76; Crane Vitry 127 No. 304; Herbert III 461; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 29, Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 242, 1131; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 27; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 176, 332; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 298 n. 88; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 14 No. 1, (Fjort): Dennett 79 No. 17; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 310 n. 1, 312, 315, 324; West Indies: Flowers 525ff. |
| K751.1 | Capture by hiding in animal carcass. Animal who comes to eat of carcass caught. Babylonian: Spence 297. |
| K751.2 | Man plays dead and hides in money chest: catches thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K752 | Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.) Africa (Kaffir): Theal 30 No. 1, (Basuto): Jacottet 100 No. 15, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 384 No. 2; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 79 No. 15, 95 No. 18 (hollow tree). |
| K753 | Capture by hiding in disguised objects. Egypt: Maspero Contes populaires de l'Ancienne Egypt (Paris, 1882) 85f.; Arabian: Basset 1001 Contes II 301; Indonesia: Overbeck Insulinde I 148. |
| K753.1 | Capture by hiding in disguised ship. DeVries Acta Philologica Scandinavica II 137. |
| K754 | Capture by hiding in artificial animal. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 643. |
| K754.1 | Trojan wooden horse. Permits capture of the city by concealing soldiers. *Fb "stud" III 619b; *Penzer II 133 n. 1; Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 431; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 229 n. 1, 231 n. 1. |
| K754.2 | Capture by hiding in artificial elephant. *Penzer I 133 n. 1; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 859. |
| K754.3 | Capture by hiding in artificial bird. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 431. |
| K755 | Capture by masking as another. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 215f., 541. |
| K755.1 | Abduction by fraudulently giving signal of husband's return. (Cf. K1354.3.2.) Chinese: Graham. |
| K756 | Capture by imitation of animal's voice. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 119, (Fjort): Dennett 85 No. 10; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17; Antigua, British West Indies: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 68. |
| K756.1 | Birds captured by imitating their song. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1065. |
| K756.2 | Attempted capture by causing animal to make noise. |
| K756.2.1 | Attempted capture by causing owner's pig to squeal at night. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K756.2.2 | Attempted capture by ringing cowbell to sound as if cow has wandered far away. (Cf. K341.7.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| K756.3 | Bird catches fishes by imitating voice of friend. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K757 | Capture by feigning illness. (Cf. K751.) *Type 50; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 35; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 3 No. 1; West Indies: Flowers 527. (See also all references to K961.) |
| K758 | Capture by hiding in baskets of food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K761 | Capture by putting on the clothes of slain enemy. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K762 | Stranger asks woman for fire: abducts her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K763 | Capture by hiding in hollow tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K764 | Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K767 | Hare carries disguised lion covered with honey, thus luring animals into trap. Africa (Dzalamo): Meinhof 281. |
| K770 | Other deceptive captures. |
| K771 | Unicorn tricked into running horn into tree. *Type 1640; *BP I 148ff., 164; Missouri French: Carrière; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 432; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 41 No. 9 (cow). |
| K771.1 | Lioness enticed into putting head into wall to pursue hare who escapes through hole. Gets stuck. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K772 | Victim enticed into dancing: captured. Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 257 No. 4. |
| K772.1 | Crabs induced to take moonlight walks: eaten. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K773 | Deception by having victim pick trickster's teeth. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 7 n. 1, 15, 60. |
| K774 | Capture by sight of women's breasts. Women with uncovered breasts meet hero. He averts his face and is captured. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 142 (Cuchulainn), *Cross. |
| K774.1 | Sight of women's breasts used to appease enemies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K774.2 | Sight of unclothed women calms rage of youthful hero. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K775 | Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73. |
| K775.1 | Capture by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K776 | Capture by intoxication (or narcotic). Dickson 67 n. 13, 122 n. 71; Malone PMLA XLIII 415; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 5, Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 169; West Indies: Flowers 527. |
| K776.1 | Capture with aid of sleep-bringing music. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K776.1.1 | Fortress captured as harper puts garrison to sleep with music while besiegers place fingers in ears. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K776.2 | Man is made drunk and left in temple at mercy of demons. Chinese: Graham. |
| K777 | Capture of castle by pretending to surrender and entering. Dickson 70 n. 19. |
| K778 | Capture through the wiles of a woman. (Cf. K774.) Dickson 122 n. 70; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K778.1 | Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K778.2 | Amazonian woman disguised as leper seduces and binds enemies one by one. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K778.3 | Capture by luring to courtesan's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K778.4 | Attack made on groom after he has been invited to female apartments to have meal with bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K778.5 | Adulteress lures husband so as to have him killed. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 980. |
| K781 | Castle captured with assistance of owner's daughter. She loves the attacker. (Cf. K811.1.1, K2340.) Dickson 240, 241 n. 44; Krappe "Die Sage von der Tarpeja" Rheinisches Museum für Philologie LXXVIII (1929) 248—67; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 31. |
| K782 | Capture by lying in wait in enemy's haunt. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K783 | Capture by blinding. |
| K783.1 | Enemy blinded with chili powder and overpowered. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K785 | In duel with long poles the ogre is forced into the pig-sty. Type 1083; Magyar: Honti FFC LXXXI 35 No. 1083. |
| K786 | Fairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K787 | Maiden sent to rendezvous with lover, who is captured. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K788 | Woman lured into the forest and captured. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 179 (Idunn), *Boberg. |
| K788.1 | Princess lured into the forest by harp-playing boy or thief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K800 | Killing or maiming by deception. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K810 | Fatal deception into trickster's power. |
| K811 | Victim lured into house and killed. *Type 56B; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 32; West Indies: Flowers 528. |
| K811.0.1 | Animal enticed into palace after it had long fed out of trickster's hand. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 851. |
| K811.1 | Enemies invited to banquet and killed. (Cf. K871.2.) *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 661, 662; *BP II 85, III 106; Gaster Thespis 211, 328; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Grote I 150; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Yanagita Folklore Studies XI 2 No. 2; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/555). |
| K811.1.1 | With help of captor's daughter, prisoners slay many of his soldiers at a banquet. (cf. K781.) English: Wells 85 (The Sowdone of Babylone). |
| K811.1.2 | Enemies invited to feast and poisoned. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K811.2 | Jackals persuaded to enter pit to escape coming storm. Killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K811.3 | Cruel king lured to enemy's power by invitation to false execution. He comes to see a girl die and is killed himself. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K811.4 | Hostile visitors lured into iron house concealed by wooden walls. Hosts set fire to house. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K811.5 | Pretended friend puts food on far side of hidden ditch, victim falls in and is killed. Africa (Fang): Tessman 42. |
| K812 | Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place). Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra III 16 (tr. Ryder) 364; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 32, 75. |
| K812.1 | Dupe's house set afire so that he is burned in trying to put out fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K812.1.1 | Boy teaches giants how to lay a carpet of dried grass and naphtha over the hard ground floor of their cave, sets fire to it and thus suffocates them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K812.2 | Men lured to their death when their fields are set on fire. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K812.3 | Monkey lures tiger into tree-top and sets fire to it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K812.4 | Owner burns intruder in house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K813 | Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 85), 97 (ST 106, 192); Halm Aesop No. 243; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K813.1 | Whimbrel sends his adulterous mate to meet him in cave. He has arranged with lion to be there to eat her. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K813.2 | Hare tricks civet cat into being eaten by lion. Africa (Dzalamo): Meinhof ZsES XI 281. |
| K814 | Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 197 No. 25. |
| K815 | Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed. *Type 242; Wienert FFC LVI 50 (ET 101), 97 (ST 112); Halm Aesop No. 263; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 33 No *127A; India: *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra III 13 (tr. Ryder) 368; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 276 No. 41, (Kaffir): Theal 177; West Indies: Flowers 528. |
| K815.1 | Fox persuades cock to come down and talk to him. Kills him. Chauvin II 94 No. 44; Bødker Exempler 291 No. 48; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.1.1 | Fox tries to persuade cock to come down and talk to him. Cock calls dog and fox flees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.2 | Spider invites wasp (fly) to rest on her "white curtain". Eats her. Herbert III 40ff.; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K815.3 | Dogs listen to wolves' hypocritical words. Are killed. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 90), 97 (ST 109); Halm Aesop No. 266. |
| K815.4 | Cat invites hens to a feast and kills them. Wienert FFC LVI *49 (ET 87), 96 (ST 105). |
| K815.5 | Owl invites cricket to share his nectar. Kills him. Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 159), 118 (ST 280). |
| K815.6 | Snake promises to do no harm to frog. Kills him. Panchatantra III 13, (tr. Ryder) 368; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 127. |
| K815.7 | Cat acts as judge between sparrow and hare; eats them both. *Penzer V 102 n. 2; Chauvin II 96 No. 50; Bødker Exempler 294 No. 55; Panchatantra III 2, (tr. Ryder) 315 (partridge and rabbit); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K815.8 | Hawk persuades doves to elect him their king. Kills them. Wienert FFC LVI 47 (ET 60), 97 (ST 107). |
| K815.9 | Tiger flatters cow into showing that she has few teeth. Kills her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.10 | Weasel induces cuckoo to tell him that it cries at night when asleep. Hence weasels can kill cuckoos. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.11 | Wounded wolf persuades lamb to bring him a drink, adding that he will get his own food. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K815.12 | Boat lured to land with kind words and wrecked in order to take vengeance on the men. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K815.13 | Cat makes truce with mice. When they have become friendly, he eats them. Bødker Exempler 306 No. 81; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.14 | Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) Bødker Exempler 281 No. 26; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 260. |
| K815.14.1 | Fish, lured by kind words, are killed by old man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.15 | Cat lures young foxes from den with music. Kills them. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 133*; Russian: Andrejev No. 61 II*; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX No. 133*. |
| K815.16 | Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 291. |
| K815.17 | King of fishes eats his subjects as they pay him their respects day and night. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 269. |
| K815.18 | Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 71. |
| K815.19 | Victim told to stand ready by tree to catch bee nest as it falls; trickster throws club at him instead. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75. |
| K816 | Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 82 No. 19. |
| K818 | Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K818.1 | Man killed with sword, which he himself is tricked into passing to captured enemy. Herrmann Saxo II 197—98; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K818.2 | Giantess killed with the spear she herself has given hero. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga Stárfsama 622, Boberg. |
| K818.3 | Victim's arrows made harmless. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K818.4 | Deception by hiding weapons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K821 | Fairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K822 | Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K824 | Sham doctor kills his patients. Bødker Exempler 289 No. 42; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 220 No. 98; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 352 n. 271a; Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 171f.; West Indies: Flowers 529; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 256 No. 38. |
| K824.1 | Sham doctor kills ogre (giant). *BP III 375; **Hackman Polyphemsage; Icelandic: *Boberg; Melanesia, Indonesia: Dixon 188f. nn. 6—8; S. A. Indian (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 169. |
| K825 | Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). Type 1653; *Cosquin I 244f.; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 141 No. 1654; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 147, 181—8; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K825.1 | Cormorant's tongue pulled out by putting louse on it. Dh III 28; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 306 n. 109aa. |
| K825.1.1 | Victim persuaded to hold out tongue: bitten off. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K825.2 | Elephant killed by cutting off trunk which is poked into cave after victims. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K825.3 | Man causes victim to bite his tongue off. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K825.4 | Man persuaded to hold out hand for alleged letter from king. Hand cut off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K826 | Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 295 n. 82, (California): Gayton and Newman 83, 85. |
| K827 | Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seized. |
| K827.1 | Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) *Type 56A; Dh IV 279; Chauvin II 112 No. 81; Bødker Exempler 306 No. 82; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 258f.; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 36 No. 5, (Hottentot): Bleek 21 No. 11; West Indies: Flowers 529. |
| K827.2 | Cannibals persuaded to take snuff: killed. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 142. |
| K827.3 | Dupe persuaded to sing (dance) on trickster's body. When he approaches the mouth he is killed. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 92 No. 19; Bahama: Parsons MAFLS XIII 109 No. 63. |
| K827.4 | Fox shams death and catches crows that come to feed on him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K827.5 | Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K828 | Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal. Type 123; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K828.1 | Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep. *Herbert III 36ff.; Hervieux IV 222 No. 51; Jacobs Aesop 209 No. 39; Wienert FFC LVI 45 (ET 35), 68 (ET 325), 96 (ST 100); Halm Aesop No. 376; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K828.2 | Fox feigning illness admitted to hen-roost and kills the hens. Herbert III 36; Hervieux IV 221 No. 50; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K828.3 | Wolf tries to cheat ewe by posing as ram. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K831 | Victim killed while being bathed. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 269 n. 2 (Agamemnon); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K831.1 | Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 333. |
| K831.1.1 | Trickster sends dupe to well for drink of water; pushes him in. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K831.2 | Monkey killed by girls who pretend to wash its buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K832 | Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K832.1 | Jealous wife tells sister to look below: pushes her over cliff. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 153. |
| K832.1.1 | Victim persuaded to look into well or pond: pushed in. Type 408; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K832.2 | Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 311; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K832.3 | Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K832.4 | Man gets bear off guard by telling her to listen for hunters: kills her. Chinese: Graham. |
| K832.5 | Victim persuaded to look for certain tree: pushed over cliff. Chinese: Graham. |
| K832.6 | Man asked to look at birds: pulled into pool. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K833 | Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G 3/59); S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 74. |
| K834 | Victim killed while asleep in killer's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K834.1 | Dupe tricked into sleeping. Killed. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K835 | Dragon deceived into listening to tale: hero cuts off its head. Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. IX 86. |
| K836 | Ferocious boar fed and put to sleep by rubbing. Killed. (Aper.) *Campbell Sages lxxxii. |
| K837 | Victim killed while load is being taken from his back. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K838 | Victim lured into trough: is pounded up with poisoned fish. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hausa): Frobenius Atlantis IX 277ff., 287ff., Nos. 74, 75. |
| K839 | Fatal deception into trickster's power—miscellaneous. |
| K839.1 | Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 87. |
| K839.2 | Victim lured into approach by false token. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K839.3 | Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K839.4 | King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K839.5 | Camel lures wolf into looking at the writing on his breast. Crushes wolf. India: Thompson-Balys; Maori: Clark 112. |
| K839.6 | Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight. Marquesas: Beckwith Myth 257. |
| K840 | Deception into fatal substitution. |
| K841 | Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. *Type 1538; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 172—4, 193, 196; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 191. |
| K841.1 | Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. Report that man executed just then will be king in heaven. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K842 | Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) *Types 1525A, 1535, 1737; *BP II 10ff., III 188, 192, 393; *Fb "sæk" III 720b; *Cosquin études 392; *Chauvin V 247 No. 147 n. 1. — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1535A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1535B*; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163-7, 172-4; New Mexican Spanish: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419ff.; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 104 No. 56; Indonesia: Dixon 191 n. 14, De Vries's list No. 276, Coster-Wijsman 26 No. 5; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 196, 438, 444; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 419ff.; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis II 220ff., VIII 54f., 61f., 175ff.; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 111 No. 23, 140 No. 29, Nights 177 No. 31, 185, No. 32, (Alabama): Work JAFL XXXII 400; Bahama: Parsons MAFLS XIII 82 No. 39, Edwards MAFLS III 63, Finlay JAFL XXXVIII 293; Antigua, British West Indies: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 54. |
| K842.1 | Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place suspended in air. Type 1535; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K842.2 | Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in pit. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K842.3 | Tied animal persuades another to take his place. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K842.4 | Raja substitutes himself for condemned man. Made to believe that this will take him to heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K843 | Dupe persuaded to be killed in order to go to heaven. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 276, Dixon 201 n. 38*. |
| K843.1 | Dupes persuaded to be burned, thinking they will be sent back with gifts. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K844 | Dupe persuaded to play for wedding party. Takes place of trickster, who sets fire and burns him up. Mexico: Boas JAFL XXV 207, 238, Mechling JAFL XXV 202; New Mexico: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419. Cf. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 90 No. 17. |
| K845 | Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.) Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 71, Voorhoeve 79. |
| K846 | Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K850 | Fatal deceptive game. |
| K851 | Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death. Indonesia: Dixon 197; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 340 n. 226; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 98, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 378 No. 3, (Basuto): Jacottet 14 No. 1, 18 No. 12, (Thonga): Junod 215, (Zulu): Callaway 6; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 16; West Indies: Flowers 530. |
| K852 | Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. *Penzer I 157; *Köhler-Bolte I 210, 585; Icelandic: Boberg; Danish: Christensen DF XLVII 200 No. 36; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 122 Nos. 40-42; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 19; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 30 No. 3. |
| K853 | Fatal game: drowning. American Negro (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 261. |
| K854 | Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. N. A. Indian (Pueblo): Parsons JAFL XXXI 227f. |
| K855 | Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 350 n. 262. Cf. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen I 374 No. 44. |
| K855.1 | Deceptive game: bear cubs sway in tree. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 95. |
| K856 | Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. Japanese: Ikeda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/116); S. A. Indian (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 175. |
| K857 | Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) Africa (Fang): Tessman 40; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 239 No. 11. |
| K858 | Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. Africa (Benga): Nassau 144 No. 16; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| K861 | Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. Africa (Thonga): Junod 212. |
| K863 | Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K863.1 | Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K864 | Fatal apple-throwing game. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17. |
| K865 | Fatal game: putting heads in notches. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17 and note. |
| K866 | Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K867 | Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. |
| K867.1 | Deceptive sword-game: brother killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K868 | Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K869 | Fatal deceptive game—miscellaneous. |
| K869.1 | Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K869.2 | Deceptive hide and seek game. Hide and seek game proposed by seven demons so as to kill hero. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K869.3 | Deceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K869.4 | Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441. |
| K870 | Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). |
| K871 | Fatal intoxication. Korean: Zong in-Sob 168 No. 72; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 397; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| K871.1 | Army intoxicated and overcome. Köhler-Bolte I 512; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K871.2 | Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) Greek: Grote I 150. |
| K872 | Judith and Holofernes: girl from enemy camp chosen to sleep with intoxicated general kills him in bed. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Gaster Exempla 230 No. 251, *bin Gorion Born Judas I 362f., *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K872.1 | Girl kills man sleeping with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K873 | Fatal deception by giving narcotic. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV 5; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Einstein 66, (Basuto): Jacottet 16 No. 2. |
| K873.1 | King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K873.2 | Groom murdered, while watchmen and bride are brought to sleep by music. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K873.3 | Boy makes adversary insensible by substituting opium for half of tobacco in pipe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K873.4 | Drug introduced into half of fruit from enemy's fingernail where it has been hidden. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 556. |
| K874 | Deception by pretended lousing. Irish myth: Cross: India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 12; S. A. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502, RMLP XXXIII 144. |
| K874.1 | Ape pretends to louse heron, but plucks out his feathers. Indonesia: *DeVries's list No. 34, Dixon 193 n. 19*. |
| K875 | Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K890 | Dupe tricked into killing himself. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K890.1 | Poor man deceives rich man, plays tricks on him, causes his death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K891 | Dupe tricked into jumping to his death. |
| K891.1 | Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself. *Type 333; *BP I 40. Cf. Type 124. |
| K891.2 | Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. Indonesia, Japan, Melanesia: Dixon 194 nn. 26-28, Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 68, 92. |
| K891.3 | Monkey tricked into jumping in water and drowning self. Jackal hides in reeds which screen water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K891.4 | Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K891.5 | Dupe induced to jump over precipice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K891.5.1 | Animals (giants) enticed over precipice. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 299 n. 91; Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 37 No. 18. |
| K891.5.2 | Dupe crowded over precipice. Type 10***; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 41. |
| K891.5.3 | Dupes persuaded to be thrown over precipice. (Cf. K842.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K891.5.4 | Dupes deceived into falling over precipice. U.S.: Baughman (K894.4, K894.5); India: Thompson-Balys (K894.4); Tonga: Gifford 101. |
| K892 | Dupe crowded into the water: drowns. Type 10**; S. A. Indian (Tembé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140. |
| K893 | Dupe forced on to thin ice: drowns himself. Type 10*. |
| K893.1 | Man leads pursuers to edge of thin ice, swerves suddenly; they fall through the ice. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K895 | Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall. Sulka of New Britain: Dixon 131, *132 n. 2. |
| K896 | Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes. |
| K896.1 | Beaver and porcupine trick each other. Beaver carries porcupine and abandons him in the center of a lake. Porcupine causes the lake to freeze and escapes. He then carries beaver and abandons him in the top of a tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 302 n. 106. |
| K897 | Dupe tricked on to slippery road lined with knives. He kills himself. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 36 No. 3. |
| K897.1 | Snake killed by putting knives in animal he is swallowing. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K897.2 | Animal killed by axes (knives) left in tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K897.2.1 | Giant impales self on javelin fugitive holds behind himself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K897.3 | Robbers make stairs slippery so that bathing prince falls. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K898 | Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K910 | Murder by strategy. Types 10**, 221, 228; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K911 | Feigning death to kill enemy. *Type 56B; Wienert FFC LVI *59 (ET 207), 98 (ST 125); Halm Aesop No. 225; Chauvin III 76 No. 50; Herbert III 36ff.; Hervieux IV 220 No. 49.—Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1131; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 35; Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 17 No. 1. |
| K911.1 | Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body. *Type 1539; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 198 No. 391; Chauvin VII 151ff. No. 430. |
| K911.2 | Man feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieve. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K911.3 | Sleep feigned to kill enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K911.4 | Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K911.5 | Feigning deafness to lure enemy close and to kill him. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K912 | Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house. *Types 304, 956AB; *BP I 373; *Fb "hoved" I 654b, "røver" III 132a; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K912.0.1 | Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter house. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
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