μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.)

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K81.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 439
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191b
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis IX 368, XII 349.
  • general *Type 1088
  • general Saintyves Perrault 282
  • general Krohn Tutkimuksia Suomalaisten Kansansatujen alalta 220ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 86
  • general *Fb "æde" III 1139b. Icelandic: Flateyjarbók I 211, MacCulloch Eddic 93, Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Deceptive eating contest.

Filed beside it
Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) Deceptive eating contest: inexhaustible food. Hero can produce unlimited food which opponents must eat Contest: who will eat least. Food secretly furnished one, but plan detected and foiled
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Deceptive drinking contest: hole for water. The trickster lets the water run out through a hole; the dupe drinks himself to death. (Cf. K81.1.)
Carried in tale types

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