μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • IcelandicBoberg.
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Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

1 finer motif beneath it
Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear
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Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to deathDeceptive 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 diesFatal 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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