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Motif

Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deceptive game. · view the constellation · filed as K852

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Danish Christensen DF XLVII 200 No. 36
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 122 Nos. 40–42
  • Swiss Jegerlehner 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.

Filed beside it
Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death Fatal game: drowning Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) Fatal apple-throwing game Fatal game: putting heads in notches Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves Fatal deceptive game – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.)

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