Bird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head

Motif

Bird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1082.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

CheremisSebeok-Nyerges
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

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.

Filed beside it

Enemies duped into fighting each other Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another Object thrown into air causes enemies to fight over it

Carried in tale types

The Bird and the Jackal (previously The Bird and the Jackal as Friends) · ATU 2231 recorded variant

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