Sham threat: either ... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)." — Mythoi

Motif

Sham threat: either ... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)."

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception through bluffing. · Other bluffs. · view the constellation · filed as K1771.2

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1564*.
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 21ff. No. 450

Within the index

Filed under Bluffing threat.

Filed beside it

Sham threat: "In earnest or in jest?" A man asks another who has brushed against him: "Did you do that in earnest or in jest?" – "In earnest." – "I am glad, for I don't like that kind of jesting." Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work." Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel Sham threat: if I were not a philosopher I should break your head for you Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns Sham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending ship Sham dream prophesying shipwreck makes people leave ship so that there is room enough for man who wants to go King menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet

Carried in tale types

The Terrible Threat (previously Sham Threat: either · ATU 1563* 1 recorded variant

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