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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IndonesiaDixon 197
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 340 n. 226
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 98, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 378 No. 3, (Basuto): Jacottet 14 No. 1, 18 No. 12, (Thonga): Junod 215, (Zulu): Callaway 6
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 16
  • West IndiesFlowers 530.
Within the index

Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

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Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hangedFatal game: drowningFatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitatesFatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swingingFatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemyDeceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.)Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut offFatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he diesShooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.)Fatal apple-throwing gameFatal game: putting heads in notchesFatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushedFatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended gameDeceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selvesFatal deceptive game – miscellaneous

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