Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness — Mythoi

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Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K12.5

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Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre. The ogre squeezes the man so that his eyes bulge out. The ogre: "Why do you glare so?" – "I am looking to see where to throw you." The ogre flees (Cf. K18.1.) Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." A man challenged by an ogre persuades the latter to wrestle with his old grandfather instead. By this he means a bear. (Cf. K11.6, K15.1.) Wrestling match: Antaeus. Giant invincible in wrestling because with each contact with earth his strength is renewed Wrestling match of man with fever. Man places stone image at wrestling-place; fever enters image and shatters it

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