Contest: who will eat least. Food secretly furnished one, but plan detected and foiled

Motif

Contest: who will eat least. Food secretly furnished one, but plan detected and foiled.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K81.4

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LithuanianBalys Index No. 1568A*.

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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: 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

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