μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
Within the index

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 itTo 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 waysHealed with his own medicineYou lead and I will follow: hard command thus evadedRogues exchange objects and cheat each otherThieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.)Swindler's plans foiledRebuke to the stingyPoor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on himSoldier's practical retort to officerDream 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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