The constellation
K53 Deceptive contest in fasting
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- Contest in seeing sunrise first: sleeper wins. One keeps awake, the other sleeps. The first thinks that he sees the sun and cries out prematurely, thus waking the other, who wins · K52.2 entry
- Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.) · K52.1 entry
- Contest in seeing sunrise first · K52 entry
- Waking contest won by giving opponent soporific · K51.1 entry
- Absurd contest won by deception · K60 entry
- Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. Hero and ogre to vie in pushing a hole in a tree with their heads · K61 entry
- Contest in squeezing water from a stone. The ogre squeezes a stone; the trickster a cheese or egg · K62 entry
- Contest in biting a stone. The ogre bites a stone; the man a nut · K63 entry