Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated — Mythoi

Motif

Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Labor contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K42.0.1

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general Type 1053*.

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Filed under Harvesting contest.

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Threshing contest Mowing contest won by trickery. The man takes the center of the field. The ogre is given a dull sickle and mows around the outside of the field

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