μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Deceptive land purchase: king, as reward for help in winning battle, promises wounded chieftain as much land as his chariot can travel around; bribes charioteer to turn back whenever chieftain faints from loss of blood.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K185.7.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be surrounded in a certain time.

Filed beside it
Land bargain: land surrounded by a horse (cow) in one day Land bargain: land ridden around during a sermon

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