Enemies duped into fighting each other

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Enemies duped into fighting each other.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1082.0.1

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India*Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it.

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Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another Object thrown into air causes enemies to fight over it Bird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head

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