μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K18.1

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. Baughman.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 64
Within the index

Filed under Throwing contest won by deception.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel or St. Peter, warns him to get out of way of missile trickster is about to throw
Filed beside it
Throwing contest: golden club on the cloud. Trickster shows the ogre the club he has thrown. (Really only a bright spot on the cloud.) (Cf. K1746.) Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre. The ogre squeezes the man so that his eyes bulge out. The ogre: "Why do you glare so?" – "I am looking to see where to throw you." The ogre flees (Cf. K18.1.)
Carried in tale types

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