μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Judge awards decision to the greater bribe.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in the lawcourt – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1192.1

Scholars’ trail — 7 references (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • England Baughman
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *DeVries FFC LXXIII 263
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 125, 128, 852, 853
  • general Scala Celi 20a No. 122
Within the index

Filed under The bribed judge.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe Judge favors poor defendant so he may obtain money from rich without begging
Filed beside it
Error was in the honey. Trickster takes jar filled with earth but with honey on top as bribe to the judge. He takes the decision in writing. Cheat is discovered and judge sends message that an error has been made. Reply: the decision was right; the error is in the honey. (Cf. J1176.3.) The bribed judge's ancestors. Clever animal says in court that she drops dung on ancestors of judges who take bribes (unless they confess). Judges confess
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