Motif
deadly invitation into a house
deadly_invitation_into_a_house
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories MODERN EUROPEAN STORIES. / SONG AND DANCE. / PREFACE. / ANIMAL STORIES.; lines 1455-1586 confidence: medium
In hard times Tacoomah says he will half shut the door, cry that he is sick or call police, and when people come he kills them with a machete and puts them in a barrel for hungry time.
Tacoomah feigns need or sickness to bring people into his house, kills them, and stores them; Goat avoids the same danger by noticing that no one exits.
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