Deceptive eating contest — Mythoi

Motif

Deceptive eating contest.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 41 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 49 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Koryak Jochelson JE VI 128
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 314 n. 137b
Eskimo (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 313, (Greenland): Rink 108.

Within the index

Filed under Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception.

4 finer motifs beneath 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: 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

Filed beside it

Deceptive drinking contest Deceptive scratching contest Deceptive vocal contests Contest in seeing Contest in hearing Deceptive laughing contest

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

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