"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

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"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

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GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 77.— THE GOOD BAEGAIN.
GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 9595.— OLD HILDEBEAND.
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 14: The New Chemical Light, Part I (Michael Sendivogius)
Literary CrystallizationFour 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

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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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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