μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • DanishChristensen DF XLVII 200 No. 36
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 122 Nos. 40–42
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 19
  • Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 30 No. 3.
  • general *Penzer I 157
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 210, 585
Within the index

Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

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Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to deathFatal 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
Travels with
Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.)

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