Diving match: trickster eats food while dupe is under water

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Diving match: trickster eats food while dupe is under water.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K16.2

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Africa (Kaffir)Theal 101, (Angola): Chatelain 205
Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 239
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 373 No. 67, (South Carolina): Stewart JAFL XXXII 394, Parsons MAFLS XVI 40.

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Diving match won by deception: breathing under brush. Trickster comes up and breathes under some floating brush, where he is not detected

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