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Motifs
- Pleiades from hunters marooned in sky after felling world-tree. A773.5
- Resuscitation by felling the tree into which one is incarnated and splitting trunk into two parts. E29.4.1
- Task: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.) H1095
- Deceptive bargain: felling the tree. The ogre and the trickster agree to fell a large tree. The trickster purposely dulls his axe on a stone and then asks the ogre to exchange. Rather than work with a dull axe, the ogre does all the work. K178
- Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.1