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Contest in seeing sunrise first.

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

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Filed under Endurance contest won by deception.

2 finer motifs beneath it
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.) 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
Filed beside it
Waking contest won by deception Deceptive contest in fasting

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