μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K232.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Refusal to return borrowed goods.

1 finer motif beneath it
Fairy (god?) loses stronghold by consenting to lend it for "a day and a night."
Filed beside it
By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods

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