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K246 Death feigned to avoid paying debts
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- Debtor refuses to pay his debt · K231 entry
- Refusal to return borrowed goods · K232 entry
- Trickster escapes without paying · K233 entry
- Trickster summons all creditors at once, precipitates fight, and escapes payment · K234 entry
- Creditor killed or driven away · K235 entry
- Literal payment of debt (not real) · K236 entry
- Trickster disguises himself and escapes notice of creditors · K237 entry
- Deceptive respite in payment obtained · K238 entry
- Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed · K239 entry
- The castration bargain: wife sent. The trickster castrates the dupe and is to come the next day and be castrated himself. He sends his wife as substitute · K241 entry