μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Impossible demand rebuked.

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

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Filed under The cheater cheated.

2 finer motifs beneath 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 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."
Filed beside it
A rule must work both ways Healed with his own medicine You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) Swindler's plans foiled Rebuke to the stingy Poor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on him Soldier's practical retort to officer Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses

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