Bluff: told to bring water in an ox skin, hero prepares to dig a canal — Mythoi

Motif

Bluff: told to bring water in an ox skin, hero prepares to dig a canal.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception through bluffing. · Ogre (large animal) overawed. · view the constellation · filed as K1741.3.1

Filed across the traditions

Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges.

Within the index

Filed under Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened.

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