μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • general *Fb "tarm" III 776a.
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Filed under Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed.

Filed beside it
Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattleCasting eyes: animal's eyes. Ordered to cast eyes on this or that, the trickster kills animals and casts their eyes at the objectCleaning the horse. Washing him in boiling water or currying him with a razorMaking sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legsTo drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every dayTying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangledWatching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills themTrickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock
Travels with
Murder by twisting out intestines. (Cf. K1444, Q469.7.)

wander