μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K171.7

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Filed under Deceptive division of profits.

2 finer motifs beneath it
The common cow and bull: one gets front of cow and back of bullDeceptive division of sheep. Evil chooses lambs, leaving milk to Good. Lambs drink up all milk
Filed beside it
Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chaseJackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed togetherDeceptive 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.)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'sDeceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the oliveDeceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupeDeceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pigIn dividing the fish, the dupe gets the bonesBarber's and jackal's common garden: jackal pretends that garden has not yielded any fruit at allMonkey cheats fox of his share of bananas. Climbs on a tree and tosses peelings down upon fox

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