Fatal game: putting heads in notches

Motif

Fatal game: putting heads in notches.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deceptive game. · view the constellation · filed as K865

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

Scottish Campbell-McKay No. 17 and note.

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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 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: 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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