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Motif

Poisoned food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him poisoned food.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of endurance and power of survival. · Tests of power to survive. · view the constellation · filed as H1515

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“He dressed himself for the journey and set out. He went to the home of the immor- tals at the edge of the world toward the east. When he got down to the shore on this side they saw him. One of them took out the canoe of red obsidian and stretched it until it was the proper size.™ He launched it and came across for him. When he had landed, the young man placed his hand on the bow and as he did so, the boat gave a creak, he was so strong.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 42 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 314 n. 140.
  • general Type 516
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 123
  • general Hertz Gesammelte Abhandlungen "Die Sage vom Giftmädchen"
  • general BP I 42ff.
  • general Herrmann Saxo II 139
Within the index

Filed under Tests of power to survive. Vain attempts to kill hero.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Attempt to poison by druidsPoisoned drink test. Attempt to kill saint by giving him poisoned drinkTest: food with thorns. Hero given food in which thorns are hidden
Filed beside it
Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fireCold test. Attempt to freeze hero to deathPoisoned clothing test. Attempt to kill hero by poisoning clothingTest: bite of poisonous snakeClam test. Hero is sent to capture a giant clam, so that he can be killedKilling trees threaten heroClashing rocks test: hero to pass between themSpine test. Attempt to kill hero by throwing him on sharp spine or spikeWedge test. Hero is caught in cleft of treeHanging test. Unavailing attempt to kill hero by hangingPlank test. Attempt to kill hero by letting plank fall on himPrecipice test. Hero is pushed over a precipiceToboggan test. Attempt to kill hero on dangerous tobogganTest: playing game with ferocious beastDrowning test. Unavailing attempt to drown hero
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Shooting contest won by deception
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