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Motifs
- Revenant challenged to combat. E461.1
- Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged. F150.3
- Race won by deception: rabbit as "little son" substitute. A man challenged by an ogre to a running race persuades the ogre to race with his little son instead. By this he means a rabbit. (Cf. K12.2, K15.1.) K11.6
- Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." A man challenged by an ogre persuades the latter to wrestle with his old grandfather instead. By this he means a bear. (Cf. K11.6, K15.1.) K12.2
- Boxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.) K13
- Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
- Hare and bride travel in pot to escape tiger, answer "Ruined pot" when challenged. K521.11
- Threatening tiger challenged to strength contest. Beguiled into holding wood for plow and is injured. K547.9
- Magician challenged to make good his false claim. Says he can take black and white dogs and make them gray and then reverse process. Trickster furnishes gray dog and challenges magician to show his power. K1677
- Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel. K1771.4
- "Men's truth" (fir fer). Challenger to single combat must submit to same conditions as person challenged. P557.4.4
- Liar reduces the size of his yarn when challenged. X904.2