Deceptive land purchase. (Dido.)
Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K185
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Deceptive land purchase: ox-hide measure. As much land bought as can be surrounded by an ox-hide. The hide is cut into very small strips Deceptive land purchase: as much land as Vishnu can lie upon (or can step over in three steps). His worshippers claim for him the whole earth Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory Deceptive land purchase: as much land as a shawl will cover. An immense shawl prepared Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by a race. One man has supernatural speed Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by throwing object (axe, spear). Thrower has extraordinary strength Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be surrounded in a certain time Land purchase: as much as can be plowed (fenced) in a certain time Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be shadowed by a tree. Bought just before sunset Deceptive land purchase: enough to raise certain plant. This is a rapidly spreading weed which overruns the country Deceptive land purchase: saint's enemy promised as much land as he can see from certain point. Saint causes cloud to obstruct vision Deceptive land bargain: saints agree that the one who casts his staff far enough to reach distant island shall be owner of land. Staff of one contestant transformed to spear (or dart) and so alone reaches island. When saint touches weapon, it becomes staff again Land grant: as far as ox can be heard
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Deceptive partnership between man and ogre Deceptive division of profits 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 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 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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