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Motif

Killing trees threaten hero.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of endurance and power of survival. · Tests of power to survive. · view the constellation · filed as H1522

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • TahitiDixon 64
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 322 n. 160.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Bent tree test. Bent tree is released so as to tear hero to pieces
Filed beside it
Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fireCold test. Attempt to freeze hero to deathPoisoned food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him poisoned foodPoisoned 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 killedClashing 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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Door (gate) entrance to lower worldSwallowed person becomes baldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsPlace and conditions of childbirth

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