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Filed under Fatal deceptive game.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caughtDeceptive hide and seek game. Hide and seek game proposed by seven demons so as to kill heroDeceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lionFatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it
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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 diesShooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.)Fatal 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 selves

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