Refusal to return borrowed goods — Mythoi

Motif

Refusal to return borrowed goods.

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

Filed across the traditions

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

Filed beside it

Debtor refuses to pay his debt Trickster escapes without paying Trickster summons all creditors at once, precipitates fight, and escapes payment Creditor killed or driven away Literal payment of debt (not real) Trickster disguises himself and escapes notice of creditors Deceptive respite in payment obtained Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed The 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 substitute Creditor falsely reported insane when he demands money King promises beggars new clothes: burns their old and gets much gold and silver. Keeps it Death feigned to avoid paying debts Customer takes invitation to buy as invitation to receive the goods free Payment evaded by setting countertasks Deceptions in payment of debt – miscellaneous

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