The constellation
K1784 Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away
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- Other bluffs · K1760 entry
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- Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off · K1784.1 entry
- Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence · K1784.2 entry
filed beside
- Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up · K1761 entry
- Bluff: climbing the mast. In a contest in climbing the mast the hero falls into the rigging. "You do the same thing," he challenges. The sailors are persuaded of his expertness · K1762 entry
- Bluff in court: the stone in the purse. A poor man has a stone in his purse to throw at the judge if he is sentenced. The judge thinks that he has money to use as a bribe and acquits him · K1765 entry
- Trickster's boasting scares his powerful opponent from contest · K1766 entry
- Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels · K1767 entry
- Bluffing threat · K1771 entry
- Pretended anger · K1772 entry
- King persuades men to follow him, pretending that he is going to make peace with his brothers, instead battle · K1774 entry
- Bluff: insult repeated as harmless remark. The trickster makes an insulting remark, but when called on to repeat what he said he changes it so as to turn aside wrath · K1775 entry
- Boast where the master cannot hear. The servant boasts that he has scolded his master · K1776 entry