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Deceptive partnership between man and ogreDeceptive division of profitsAnger bargain. The trickster makes a bargain with his master that the first to become angry must submit to punishment. He thereupon heaps abuses on his master till the latter breaks out in anger and must take his punishmentDeceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirtyDeceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack madeDeceptive bargain: three wishes. The ogre is to fulfill three wishes of the peasant. The latter wishes for all the tobacco and brandy in the world and then some more brandy in addition. The devil must admit failureDeceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morningDeceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starvesDeceptive bargain: felling the tree. The ogre and the trickster agree to fell a large tree. The trickster purposely dulls his axe on a stone and then asks the ogre to exchange. Rather than work with a dull axe, the ogre does all the workDeceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacksDeceptive bargain: an ox for five pennies. A woman who has been left the ox on condition that she give the proceeds to the poor offers it for five pennies, but it must be bought along with a cock at twelve florins. She gives the five pennies to the poor and keeps the twelve florinsDeceptive bargain: the ogre and the copper coins. Every time the copper coin is paid out, the ogre must make a new one. The man buys an extensive property and pays with a large number of copper coins. He threatens to buy another and the ogre goes back on his contractDeceptive land purchase. (Dido.)Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crookedStrokes shared. The boy promises the soldier what the king has promised to give him. The soldier receives a beating in place of the boyStealing only a small amount. A man promises in confession to steal only a small amount. He steals a rope with a mare on the end of itPeace between sheep and wolves. As hostages the dogs are handed over to the wolves; the young wolves to the sheep. The wolves then attack and kill the sheepThe man helps the horse against the stag. The horse must agree to be saddled and bridled. The man then refuses to release himDeceptive bargain based on an unusual nameBargain: if the sun reverses its course. Because of an eclipse the sun is held to have done so, and Atreus becomes kingA ribbon long enough to reach from ear to ear. The rascal has had an ear cut off and this is in a distant citySelling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.)Until the log burns out: time given servant for Christmas holidays. Soaks the log so that it burns a weekCheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible +1 more
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