The constellation
J1526 Soldier's practical retort to officer
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- The cheater cheated · J1510 entry
beneath it
filed beside
- A rule must work both ways · J1511 entry
- Impossible demand rebuked · J1512 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
- 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