Order to put a small vessel of milk into huge container. Shrewd group each by himself pours water thinking this will not be detected if the others pour milk

Motif

Order to put a small vessel of milk into huge container. Shrewd group each by himself pours water thinking this will not be detected if the others pour milk.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K231.6.1.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Milk bought on credit poured into one container. The trickster buys it from various women. After it is all poured together he says that each may have her own back.

Carried in tale types

Milk in the Cask · ATU 1555 1 recorded variant

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