Motif
Alarm lure into ambush
alarm_lure_into_ambush
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
zuni
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Zuni Folk Tales HOW THE CORN-PESTS WERE ENSNARED / JACK-RABBIT AND COTTONTAIL / THE RABBIT HUNTRESS AND HER ADVENTURES / THE UGLY WILD BOY WHO DROVE THE BEAR AWAY FROM SOUTHEASTERN MESA; lines 9664-9783 confidence: medium
Near Háwikuh at twilight, the boys sing an incantation identified with the Ápithlan Shíwani; the younger brother scouts, cries out, and fires a cane arrow into the plaza, scattering medicine-water like rain.
The younger brother’s cry and visible movement draw the people out toward the northern trail, where the boys are hidden in the grass and shoot the nearest pursuers.
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