"I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks — Mythoi

Motif

"I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Persons duped into injuring each other. · view the constellation · filed as K1081.1.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 7 7.— THE GOOD BAEGAIN.
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 95 95.— OLD HILDEBEAND.
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 14: The New Chemical Light, Part I (Michael Sendivogius)
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.)

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