μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.)

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K81.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Congo) Weeks 214 No. 10.
  • general N. A Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69
Within the index

Filed under Deceptive eating contest.

Filed beside it
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.) 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: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.)

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