The constellation
K250 Other deceptive bargains
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- Deceptive damage claims · K251 entry
- Selling oneself and escaping · K252 entry
- Profitable league made with both parties to a quarrel · K253 entry
- Goods misappropriated · K254 entry
- Exorbitant price demanded and received · K255 entry
- Deceptive wages · K256 entry
- Stolen property sold to its owner · K258 entry
- The price of a lump of gold. A trickster asks a goldsmith what he would pay for a lump of gold of a certain size. Believing that the man has such a lump, the goldsmith pays him a large sum · K261 entry
- The priest made sick of his bargain: three words at the grave. A poor man in return for a steer gets permission from the priest to speak three words at the burial of his enemy, the rich man. Priest: "From earth are you come." Man: "Now the steer is dead." Priest: "In earth shall you remain." Man: "Father, do you want the meat?" Priest: "I wish you were in hell!" etc · K262 entry
- Agreement not to scratch. In talking the trickster makes gestures and scratches without detection · K263 entry
- Deceptive wager · K264 entry
- The fee used up before the main question is reached. A man with an unsolved question seeks the help of a wit. The latter refuses to answer unless paid. He takes small fees for each easy question leading up to the principal question. Before reaching that point the fee is exhausted, and the question remains unanswered · K265 entry
- New bags for old! Recovery of the old bag (containing money or having magic power) which the stupid wife has given away. The husband exchanges a new bag for it · K266 entry
- Counting out pay. Hole in the hat and hat over a pit · K275 entry
- Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing · K278 entry
- Trickster sells what is not his to sell · K282 entry
- Trickster persuades girl to reveal hidden gold by promising to make it into ornaments · K283 entry
- To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up · K285 entry
- Reduced prices but false weights · K286 entry
- Watered milk sold · K287 entry