μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • Africa (Bankon)Ittman 88.
  • general *Fb "kaste" II 103a
Within the index

Filed under Athletic contest won by deception.

3 finer motifs beneath 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.)Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight
Filed beside it
Race won by deceptionWrestling match won by deceptionBoxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.)Rowing contest won by deception. The boat is already sawed throughClimbing match won by deceptionDiving match won by deceptionJumping contest won by deceptionDeceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree)Deceptive shinny matchDeception in swinging contestFlying contest won by deceptionBlowing contest won by deceptionRiding contest won by substitutionTournament won by deception on borrowed horse

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