Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.)

Motif

Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.)

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Endurance contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K52.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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IrishJackson FL XLVII 285
JapaneseIkeda. Cf. Harris Friends 3 No. 1.
general *Type 120
general Dh III 147ff., 150ff.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 269

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Contest in seeing sunrise first: sleeper wins. One keeps awake, the other sleeps. The first thinks that he sees the sun and cries out prematurely, thus waking the other, who wins

Carried in tale types

The First to See the Sunrise · ATU 1201 recorded variant

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