Bluff: told to bring home a tree, hero prepares to bring home six — Mythoi

Motif

Bluff: told to bring home a tree, hero prepares to bring home six.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception through bluffing. · Ogre (large animal) overawed. · view the constellation · filed as K1741.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges.

Within the index

Filed under Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened.

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