μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under The cheater cheated.

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The shoes carried into the tree. Tricksters induce a numskull to climb a tree, planning to steal his shoes. He takes them in his belt with him. "Perhaps I shall find a nearer road home up there and shall need my shoes."The old man nods "Yes". A monk at an old man's deathbed asks if he hasn't promised this and that to the church. The old man from weakness rather than understanding nods "Yes". The son standing by asks, "Shall I throw this fellow down stairs?" The old man nods "Yes"Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out firesUnjust oath countered by another. A woman entrusts three coins to a headsman. He denies her claim which she fails to substantiate in ordeal. She now claims more and happens to succeed with ordealCatching by words
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A rule must work both waysImpossible demand rebukedHealed 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.)Rebuke 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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