Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging

Motif

Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deceptive game. · view the constellation · filed as K855

“The Lightning left him a club, and said, “Man, I came here to tell you about your wife for whom you are mourning. You do not know where she is, or how she came to be missing. That old woman drowned her in the big water. The old woman broke the rope and the girl is drowned in the big water. This club you must keep in a safe place. I was sent here to you, and I will help you get your wife back, and you must not be afraid of the big water.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 69 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 69 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 350 n. 262. Cf. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen I 374 No. 44.

Within the index

Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

1 finer motif beneath it

Deceptive game: bear cubs sway in tree

Filed beside it

Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged Fatal game: drowning Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Dead mother returns to see baby Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). (Cf. R10.1.)Murder by stabbing in ear. (Cf. S112.3.)

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