To return the eye to the one-eyed man. "Let me have your other so that I can see whether the one I bring you matches." — Mythoi

Motif

To return the eye to the one-eyed man. "Let me have your other so that I can see whether the one I bring you matches."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · The cheater cheated. · view the constellation · filed as J1512.2

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Impossible demand rebuked.

Filed beside it

Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it

Carried in tale types

The Youth in the Land of the Cheaters · ATU 978 1 recorded variant

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