The constellation
K440 Other cheats
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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- Double reward successfully claimed · K441 entry
- False claim of reward · K442 entry
- Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail · K443 entry
- Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it · K444 entry
- The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture · K445 entry
- The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide · K446 entry
- Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold · K447 entry
- Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.] · K448 entry
- Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.) · K451 entry
- Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goods · K452 entry
- Cheating through knowledge of the law · K453 entry
- Deception into giving false credit · K455 entry
- Trickster takes goods given in charity to his family · K461 entry
- Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back · K464 entry
- Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price · K465 entry
- The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own · K471 entry
- Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear · K473 entry
- Trickster cheats rescuers into digging his well. The well that he has dug falls in. He throws his clothes into the hole and hides. People going to church think that man is drowned and dig the well out · K474 entry
- Cheating through equivocation · K475 entry
- Cheating by substitution of worthless articles · K476 entry
- Attention secured by trickery · K477 entry
- Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying · K478 entry
- Demi-coq by means of his magic animals and magic water collects money · K481 entry
- Money received to bury sham-dead person · K482 entry