μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K83.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1098*.
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Filed under Deceptive scratching contest.

Filed beside it
Scratching contest: man's wife shows wounds. The man sends his wife to meet the ogre with whom he is to have a scratching contest. She tells the ogre that her husband has gone to have his nails sharpened. She shows him deep wounds that her husband has scratched on her body (obscene). The ogre leaves in terror
Carried in tale types

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