The constellation
K451 Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.)
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
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other cheats · K440 entry
beneath it
- Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager · K451.1 entry
- The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs · K451.2 entry
- Concealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealed · K451.3 entry
- Trickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond · K451.4 entry
- Confederate answers for corpse. Man poses as returned heir to dead man; pretends to address corpse for identification · K451.5 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The Judge Appropriates the Object of Dispute · ATU 926D