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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

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

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Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LVI LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 1, Canto 20
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 1, Canto 32
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 3, Canto 6
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 4, Canto 63

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Deception by equivocation.

2 finer motifs beneath it

One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained King induced by saint to remit tribute till Luan. "Luan" means both "Monday" and "Doomsday." (Cf. K2319.2.)

Filed beside it

The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel Oath literally obeyed Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer 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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