Lime (ashes) sold as gold

Motif

Lime (ashes) sold as gold.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Sale of worthless articles. · Sale of false treasure. · view the constellation · filed as K121

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1535
general *BP II 10

Within the index

Filed under Sale of false treasure.

Filed beside it

Sale of gilded mudcakes Sale of gilded (plated) ware as gold or silver Trickster, as watchman, exchanges worthless bag for bag of gold at night

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