μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20
  • Greek Fox 112 (Jason)
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 175 No. 75
  • Indonesia DeVries's list Nos. 42, 43, 44
  • Koryak Jochelson JE VI 37, 376
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 327 n. 181
  • Africa Weeks 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 other 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
Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fighting Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession Liar brings about fight between dupes Woman 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 wife Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other Falsified message brings about a war Dissension 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 league Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting Treacherous 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
Carried in tale types

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