Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness)

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Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness).

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1013.6

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N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Benedict II 344.

Within the index

Filed under False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him.

Filed beside it

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