Burning food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him burning food — Mythoi

Motif

Burning food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him burning food.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of endurance and power of survival. · Tests of power to survive. · view the constellation · filed as H1511.2

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 312 n. 120b.

Within the index

Filed under Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fire.

Filed beside it

Heat test: swallowing red-hot stones Smoke test. Attempt to kill hero by smoke Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)

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