Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off — Mythoi

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Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception through bluffing. · Other bluffs. · view the constellation · filed as K1784.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away.

Filed beside it

Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence

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