Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them

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Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them.

Deceptions. · Dupe's property destroyed. · Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. · view the constellation · filed as K1451

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed.

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Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattle Casting eyes: animal's eyes. Ordered to cast eyes on this or that, the trickster kills animals and casts their eyes at the object Cleaning the horse. Washing him in boiling water or currying him with a razor Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself Making sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legs To drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every day Tying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangled Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock

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