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K172 Anger bargain. The trickster makes a bargain with his master that the first to become angry must submit to punishment. He thereupon heaps abuses on his master till the latter breaks out in anger and must take his punishment
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- Anger bargain: may God give you a penny. A servant and his mistress agree that when they are angry with each other they shall say, "May God give you a penny!" When the master says this, the servant says, "May he give you two!" They keep increasing the amount till those who hear wonder at the performance. The mistress tells them, "You don't know the coin." · K172.1 entry
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- Contest Not to Become Angry · ATU 1000
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- Deceptive partnership between man and ogre · K170.1 entry
- Deceptive division of profits · K171 entry
- Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty · K173 entry
- Deceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack made · K174 entry
- Deceptive bargain: three wishes. The ogre is to fulfill three wishes of the peasant. The latter wishes for all the tobacco and brandy in the world and then some more brandy in addition. The devil must admit failure · K175 entry
- Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning · K176 entry
- Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves · K177 entry
- 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 entry
- Deceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacks · K181 entry
- Deceptive bargain: an ox for five pennies. A woman who has been left the ox on condition that she give the proceeds to the poor offers it for five pennies, but it must be bought along with a cock at twelve florins. She gives the five pennies to the poor and keeps the twelve florins · K182 entry