μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Oath literally obeyed.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by equivocation. · view the constellation · filed as K2312

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Filed under Deception by equivocation.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Oath literally obeyed: to tell no Christian. Woman thus sworn to secrecy talks to her unchristened child Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards
Filed beside it
The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer One day and one night. Saint has tribute remitted for a day and a night, i.e. forever, because there is but one day and one night in time Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket Thieves dig field and drain tank when miser says gold is hidden there Deception by equivocation – miscellaneous

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