One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained — Mythoi

Motif

One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by equivocation. · view the constellation · filed as K2314.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

Filed beside it

King induced by saint to remit tribute till Luan. "Luan" means both "Monday" and "Doomsday." (Cf. K2319.2.)

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