The constellation
K476 Cheating by substitution of worthless articles
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- Other cheats · K440 entry
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- Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) · K476.1 entry
- False articles used to produce credit · K476.2 entry
- Water sold as wine. Wine-casks partitioned: one half wine, other half water · K476.3 entry
- False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money · K476.4 entry
- While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one · K476.5 entry
- Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster · K476.6 entry
- Woman gives friend dried comb while she herself eats the honey · K476.7 entry
- Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one · K476.8 entry