The constellation
J1512 Impossible demand rebuked
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filed under
- The cheater cheated · J1510 entry
beneath it
- Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it · J1512.1 entry
- To return the eye to the one-eyed man. "Let me have your other so that I can see whether the one I bring you matches." · J1512.2 entry
filed beside
- A rule must work both ways · J1511 entry
- Healed with his own medicine · J1513 entry
- You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded · J1515 entry
- Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other · J1516 entry
- Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) · J1517 entry
- Swindler's plans foiled · J1521 entry
- Rebuke to the stingy · J1522 entry
- Poor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on him · J1525 entry
- Soldier's practical retort to officer · J1526 entry
- Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses · J1527 entry