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Motif

Sailor offers saint a candle as large as a mast. But he knows that after the storm he will not try to find such a candle.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K231.3.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 304
Within the index

Filed under Refusal to make sacrifice after need is past. In distress a person promises a sacrifice to a god (saint) but disregards the promise when the danger passes.

Filed beside it
Golden lamb promised to goddess. Common lamb sacrificed The sacrifice of the cock is at last carried out. Postponed until a hawk carries off the cock. Then the woman says, "O holy St. Martin, I have long owed you a living sacrifice. Take the cock as sacrifice, and may it be pleasing to you." Horse withheld as sacrifice to a saint refuses to move. The deceiver takes the horse to the church planning to remove him again, but the horse will not stir until a money equivalent has been paid Sick man offers deity 100 bulls for recovery. When reminded that he does not own so many bulls he explains that he doesn't expect the deity to come to enforce payment
Carried in tale types

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