μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The tall hog. Man boasts of hog so big that a man could not reach its back if he holds his hand as high as possible. A stranger buys the hog, sight-unseen. The seller takes him to the hog, shows the buyer that the hog's back is much below his hand when he holds it as high as possible.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. · view the constellation · filed as K196.2

Filed across the traditions
  • England Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Selling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.)

Filed beside it
Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." Trickster lends bamboo on condition that it is returned exactly as it is

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