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Climbing match won by deception.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K15

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“Bluejay was at the bottom of this, and kept saying that fat was too good for Grouse; and he poked fun at him and sneered at him whenever he was about. Grouse never said a word, but took what was given him with- out complaining. -One day Grouse made a wooden seal, carving it out of cedar, and burning it-until it was black. Then he talked to the seal, and told it what it was to do; and it dived down into the water and went out to sea.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 41 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 314 n. 135.
  • general *Hackman cf. K12
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Filed under Athletic contest won by deception.

1 finer motif beneath it
Climbing match won by deception: squirrel as "child". The ogre agrees to contest against the man's young one, i.e., a squirrel. (Cf. K11.6, K12.2.)
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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.)Rowing contest won by deception. The boat is already sawed throughDiving 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
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Wrestling match won by deceptionDiving match won by deceptionHarpooning contest won by deceptionDeceptive eating contestZeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters

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