Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each

Motif

Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Labor contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K44.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 266.

Within the index

Filed under Deceptive contest in chopping.

Carried in tale types

Felling Trees · ATU 10501 recorded variant

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