Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) — Mythoi

Motif

Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.)

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deceptive game. · view the constellation · filed as K857

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Fang) Tessman 40
Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 239 No. 11.

Within the index

Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

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 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 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

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