Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight

Motif

Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Athletic contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K18.3

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

LappishQvigstad Lappiske Eventyr II 237, 251
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 95
PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 51
N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 431ff., (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 84
AfricaMeinhof Afrikanische Märchen 178, (Jaunde): Nekes 252.
general *Type 1062
general BP I 148

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: golden club on the cloud. Trickster shows the ogre the club he has thrown. (Really only a bright spot on the cloud.) (Cf. K1746.)

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 16402 recorded variants
Throwing a Stone · ATU 10621 recorded variant

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