The constellation
K483 Color of devil's cows changed while he sleeps so that he does not know them. Only those not changed (all black, all red, etc.) belong to the devil
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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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other cheats · K440 entry
carried in tale type
filed beside
- 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