μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Type 1087.
Within the index

Filed under Athletic contest won by deception.

1 finer motif beneath it
Rowing contest won by deception: magic boat
Filed beside it
Race won by deceptionWrestling match won by deceptionBoxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.)Climbing match won by deceptionDiving match won by deceptionJumping contest won by deceptionThrowing contest won by deceptionDeceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree)Deceptive shinny matchDeception in swinging contestFlying contest won by deceptionBlowing contest won by deceptionRiding contest won by substitutionTournament won by deception on borrowed horse
Travels with
Person cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.)
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