μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. Of root crops the ogre (stupid animal) chooses the tops; of other crops the roots. (Cf. J242.8.)

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K171.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 324 No. 161
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • West Indies Flowers 497
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 441, 447ff.
  • American Negro Parsons JAFL XXX 175.
  • general *Type 1030
  • general *BP III 355, 363 n. 1
  • general **J. Hackman "Sagan om skördelningen" Folkloristika och etnografiska studier III 140ff.
  • general *Krohn "Bar (Wolf) und Fuchs" JSFO VI 104ff.
  • general Wünsche Teufel 70ff.
  • general Taylor PMLA XXXVI 58 n. 34
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 69
  • general **Hdwb. d. Märchens I 193a, 593b
  • general *Fb "rød". Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 441, (1928) 271
Within the index

Filed under Deceptive division of profits.

Filed beside it
Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig In dividing the fish, the dupe gets the bones Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good Barber's and jackal's common garden: jackal pretends that garden has not yielded any fruit at all Monkey cheats fox of his share of bananas. Climbs on a tree and tosses peelings down upon fox
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night
Carried in tale types

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