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Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 20
  • GreekFox 112 (Jason)
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 175 No. 75
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list Nos. 42, 43, 44
  • KoryakJochelson JE VI 37, 376
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 327 n. 181
  • AfricaWeeks Jungle 39ff.
  • general *Type 1640
  • general BP I 148ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 565
  • general Eskimo (Mackenzie area): Jenness 44
Within the index

Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Enemies duped into fighting each otherMissile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one anotherObject thrown into air causes enemies to fight over itBird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head
Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fightingUndesignated present starts quarrel for its possessionLiar brings about fight between dupesWoman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wifeWoman induces men to fight over her and kill each otherFalsified message brings about a warDissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in leagueBrothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's childGoddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fightingTreacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed
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