The constellation
K60 Absurd contest won by deception
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- 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
- Contest: pulling on steak with teeth. Two men take an end of a steak in their teeth; each attempts to pull it away from the other. After each has a good hold, the Irishman says (with clenched teeth) "Noo're ready?" The Dutchman says, "Yah!", loses the steak. (Cf. K22, K561.1.) · K64 entry
- Dream contests · K66 entry
- Absurd contest won by deception – miscellaneous · K69 entry