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Motif

Anger 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 punishment.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K172

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross, Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "domestique"
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 240
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 433f.
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 113.
  • general *Types 650A, 1000
  • general *BP II 293
  • general *Fb "næse" II 716a, "vred" III 1195b
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 327
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Filed under Deception through pseudo-simple bargain.

1 finer motif beneath it
Anger bargain: may God give you a penny. A servant and his mistress agree that when they are angry with each other they shall say, "May God give you a penny!" When the master says this, the servant says, "May he give you two!" They keep increasing the amount till those who hear wonder at the performance. The mistress tells them, "You don't know the coin."
Filed beside it
Deceptive partnership between man and ogre Deceptive division of profits Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty Deceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack made Deceptive 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 failure Deceptive 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 morning Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves Deceptive 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 work Deceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacks Deceptive 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 florins Deceptive 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 contract Deceptive land purchase. (Dido.) Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crooked Strokes shared. The boy promises the soldier what the king has promised to give him. The soldier receives a beating in place of the boy Stealing 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 it Peace 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 sheep
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