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K12 Wrestling match won by deception
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- Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre. The ogre squeezes the man so that his eyes bulge out. The ogre: "Why do you glare so?" – "I am looking to see where to throw you." The ogre flees (Cf. K18.1.) · K12.1 entry
- Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." A man challenged by an ogre persuades the latter to wrestle with his old grandfather instead. By this he means a bear. (Cf. K11.6, K15.1.) · K12.2 entry
- Wrestling match: Antaeus. Giant invincible in wrestling because with each contact with earth his strength is renewed · K12.3 entry
- Wrestling match of man with fever. Man places stone image at wrestling-place; fever enters image and shatters it · K12.4 entry
- Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness · K12.5 entry
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- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 41