The constellation
K266 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
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- Other deceptive bargains · K250 entry
filed beside
- 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