μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Small niche in house brings large price. House sold reserving niche. This becomes such a nuisance that buyer pays heavily for it.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K182.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under 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.

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “reserving” · wander