The constellation
K1442 Casting eyes: animal's eyes. Ordered to cast eyes on this or that, the trickster kills animals and casts their eyes at the object
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- Casting Eyes · ATU 1006
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- Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattle · K1441 entry
- Cleaning the horse. Washing him in boiling water or currying him with a razor · K1443 entry
- Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself · K1444 entry
- Making sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legs · K1445 entry
- To drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every day · K1446 entry
- Tying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangled · K1447 entry
- Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them · K1451 entry
- Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock · K1456 entry