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K171 Deceptive division of profits
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- Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase · K171.0.1 entry
- Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together · K171.0.2 entry
- Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. Of root crops the ogre (stupid animal) chooses the tops; of other crops the roots. (Cf. J242.8.) · K171.1 entry
- Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's · K171.2 entry
- Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive · K171.3 entry
- Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe · K171.4 entry
- Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig · K171.5 entry
- In dividing the fish, the dupe gets the bones · K171.6 entry
- Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good · K171.7 entry
- Barber's and jackal's common garden: jackal pretends that garden has not yielded any fruit at all · K171.8 entry
- Monkey cheats fox of his share of bananas. Climbs on a tree and tosses peelings down upon fox · K171.9 entry