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.) — Mythoi

Motif

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.)

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K18.2

Filed across the traditions

French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 22.
general *Type 1063

Within the index

Filed under Throwing contest won by deception.

Filed beside it

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

Trickster threatens to throw weight into a cloud: ogre intimidated

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 1640 2 recorded variants
Throwing a Club (previously Throwing Contest with Golden Club) · ATU 1063 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “trickster” · wander