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Motif

The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H582.1.1

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Filed across the traditions
  • Arab Azov 401f.
  • general *BP II 361
  • general Köhler Zs. f. Vksk. VI 59
  • general Africa (Sahel): Frobenius Atlantis VI 79–86.
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Filed under Riddling answer betrays theft.

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