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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller.
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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 bull Deceptive 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 chase Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together 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.) 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 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

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