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

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

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

CheremisSebeok-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.

wander