Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. Hero and ogre to vie in pushing a hole in a tree with their heads — Mythoi

Motif

Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. Hero and ogre to vie in pushing a hole in a tree with their heads.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Absurd contest won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K61

Cited in the index

general *Type 1085, 1640
general BP I 163
general Köhler-Bolte I 86.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd contest won by deception.

Filed beside it

Contest in squeezing water from a stone. The ogre squeezes a stone; the trickster a cheese or egg Contest in biting a stone. The ogre bites a stone; the man a nut Contest: pulling on steak with teeth. Two men take an end of a steak in their teeth; each attempts to pull it away from the other. After each has a good hold, the Irishman says (with clenched teeth) "Noo're ready?" The Dutchman says, "Yah!", loses the steak. (Cf. K22, K561.1.) Dream contests Absurd contest won by deception – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 1640 2 recorded variants
Making a Hole in a Tree · ATU 1085 1 recorded variant

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