Borrower of butter receives pot of cowdung with little butter on top: repays by lending wooden sword covered with thin iron. (Cf. J1511.20.)

Motif

Borrower of butter receives pot of cowdung with little butter on top: repays by lending wooden sword covered with thin iron. (Cf. J1511.20.)

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: borrowers and lenders. · view the constellation · filed as J1556.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Lender repays borrower for deceptive loan.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Goldsmith sells thinly plated gold; peasant retaliates: a pot of dirt with a little gyav on top. (Cf. J1556.1.)

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