μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
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Filed under Persons duped into injuring each other.

3 finer motifs beneath it
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.)Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fightBlind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed
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Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done itUndesignated present starts quarrel for its possessionLiar brings about fight between dupesWoman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wifeWoman induces men to fight over her and kill each otherFalsified message brings about a warDissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in leagueBrothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's childGoddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fightingTreacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed
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Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.)

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