Thieves dig field and drain tank when miser says gold is hidden there — Mythoi

Motif

Thieves dig field and drain tank when miser says gold is hidden there.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by equivocation. · view the constellation · filed as K2316

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Deception by equivocation.

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 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 Deception by equivocation – miscellaneous

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