Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated

Motif

Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K18.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general N. Am. Indian (Penobscot): Speck JAFL XXVIII 56.

Within the index

Filed under Throwing contest: trickster shouts. He is trying to warn the people beyond the sea with his cry. The ogre is intimidated. (Cf. K12.1.)

Filed beside it

Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel or St. Peter, warns him to get out of way of missile trickster is about to throw

Carried in tale types

Throwing Contest · ATU 1063A1 recorded variant

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