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Motif

Falsified message brings about a war.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1087

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 191
  • Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Men disrobe and report they have been attacked: bring about war Message falsified to bring about death of lovers
Filed beside it
Blind men duped into fighting Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it 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 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

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