Virtue of oracular pill proved. The dupe takes it. "It is dog's dung," he says and spits it out. The trickster says that he is telling the truth and demands pay

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Virtue of oracular pill proved. The dupe takes it. "It is dog's dung," he says and spits it out. The trickster says that he is telling the truth and demands pay.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Sale of worthless articles. · Sale of pseudo-magic objects. · view the constellation · filed as K114.3.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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Italian NovellaRotunda.
general *Wesselski Gonnella 99ff. Nos. 4, 4a, 105 No. 9

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Filed under Alleged oracular pill sold.

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