μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 306 n. 109ee.
Within the index

Filed under Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception.

2 finer motifs beneath 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 Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides
Filed beside it
Deceptive eating contest Deceptive drinking contest Deceptive vocal contests Contest in seeing Contest in hearing Deceptive laughing contest
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic garment (robe, tunic) Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Killed game revives and flies away Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Person eats self up Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving Person frightened into falling down a cliff Thief frightens owner from goods

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