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K83 Deceptive scratching contest
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- Scratching contest: man's wife shows wounds. The man sends his wife to meet the ogre with whom he is to have a scratching contest. She tells the ogre that her husband has gone to have his nails sharpened. She shows him deep wounds that her husband has scratched on her body (obscene). The ogre leaves in terror · K83.1 entry
- Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides · K83.2 entry
keeps company
- Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird · K932 entry
- Rape · T471 entry
- Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees · A2731.1 entry
- Magic garment (robe, tunic) · D1052 entry
- Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) · D2006 entry
- Transformation to be put in food-bag · D657.1 entry
- Transformation to seduce · D658 entry
- Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) · D876 entry
- Killed game revives and flies away · E161 entry
- Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself · F1035 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38