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Motifs
- Devil and God wrestle at time of creation. A63.3
- Fairies wrestle with mortals. F364.2
- Giants wrestle with each other. F531.6.8.3.3
- Mighty wrestler. F617
- Extraordinary strength; elephant-wrestler. F617.1
- 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
- Wrestler claims to be able even to carry away a mountain. K1741.4
- Man will not allow food served to strangers until a man of them wrestles with him. W213
- Lie: remarkable wrestler. X973
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