μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 382
  • GermanSchambach und Müller Niedersächsische Sagen und Märchen No. 170.
  • general *Type 1185
  • general cf. 1184
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Payment to be made when last leaf falls. The last leaf never falls from the oak treeThe level bushel. The student is to come into the devil's power if at the end of a year he does not at least return for the heaping bushel of gold a level one. The student forthwith hands back the level bushel and keeps the surplusTo owe sixteen florins. Horse bought on condition that the buyer pay ten florins and owe sixteen. In court the buyer insists on the bargain and shows that if he pays the sixteen florins which he owes he will break the bargain, for then he would no longer oweThe debt will be returned to the devil when the pigs walk instead of run home
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