Bluff: told to bring home an ox, hero prepares to bring home ten — Mythoi

Motif

Bluff: told to bring home an ox, hero prepares to bring home ten.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception through bluffing. · Ogre (large animal) overawed. · view the constellation · filed as K1741.2.1

Filed across the traditions

Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges.

Within the index

Filed under A thousand at one shot. Told to shoot one or two wild boars, hero asks, "Why not a thousand at one shot?" The ogre is frightened.

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