μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 68, 375, (Hottentot): Bleek 50 No. 24, (Benga): Nassau 198 No. 29
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 349 No. 61.
Within the index

Filed under Other deceptions in the payment of debt.

2 finer motifs beneath it
By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goodsOne day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained
Filed beside it
Debtor refuses to pay his debtTrickster escapes without payingTrickster summons all creditors at once, precipitates fight, and escapes paymentCreditor killed or driven awayLiteral payment of debt (not real)Trickster disguises himself and escapes notice of creditorsDeceptive respite in payment obtainedRefusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killedThe castration bargain: wife sent. The trickster castrates the dupe and is to come the next day and be castrated himself. He sends his wife as substituteCreditor falsely reported insane when he demands moneyKing promises beggars new clothes: burns their old and gets much gold and silver. Keeps itDeath feigned to avoid paying debtsCustomer takes invitation to buy as invitation to receive the goods freePayment evaded by setting countertasksDeceptions in payment of debt – miscellaneous

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