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Motif

Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K82.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 98.
Within the index

Filed under 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.)

Filed beside it
Attempted intoxication avoided by boring a hole in the bottom of cup

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