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Motifs
- Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations. D615
- Strength contest: contestants stand with back to rock on opposite side, an iron ring around neck of each connected by chain. They tug until ring severs neck of one. H1562.7
- Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
- Beauty contest won by deception: other contestants covered with leaves. K98.1