Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents

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Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by frightening. · view the constellation · filed as K2321.1

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Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 161.

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Filed under Corpse set up to frighten people.

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Dummy set up as corpse to frighten people

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Urine diagnosis to tell where a man comes from. A farmer takes some of his master's urine for examination. The doctor asks where the man comes from. "You will soon see," says the man, expecting the analysis to tell. (Cf. K2321.1.)

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