μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deceptive drinking contest: pretended swallowing. One bullock keeps mouth in water. Other drinks self to death.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K82.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Deceptive drinking contest.

Filed beside it
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.) Deceptive drinking contest: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.) Deceptive contest in drinking whisky. The man drinks water, the devil is given vinegar

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