μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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25 finer motifs beneath it
Dupe puts hand (paws) into cleft of tree (wedge, vise)Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the skyAbandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upwardFox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamedThe oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caughtDupe induced to sit on sharp stones (concealed as soft seat)Ogre induced to sit on reversed harrowWolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in faceDupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killedPeter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter againDupe persuaded to throw away his knife. Later must go hungry because he has no knife to cut the meatThe lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceivedCasual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so orderedAnimals hidden in various parts of a house attack owner with their characteristic powers and kill him when he entersMan persuaded to go to store with scythe. Is tied up as madmanSecret learned by intoxicating dupePlot to induce king to commit a crime. His line thus will forfeit successionDupe tricked in race into falling into a pitFalling beam in cave kills travelers lured withinMinister dupes raja into entering body of dead parrot, then enters rajah's bodyDupe deceived concerning the thunder; finally killed by it. The dupe has asked the trickster to tell him when it thundersSheep makes fox believe that the hunter is a priest, the dog his servant, etcHot tin under the horse's tail. The smith promises to make the horse wild. The numskull on the horse's backRat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent +1 more

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