μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fox is promised chickens: is driven off by dogs.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K235.1

Scholars’ trail — 2 references (open)

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.

  • general Type 154
  • general *Krohn Mann und Fuchs 11.
Within the index

Filed under Creditor killed or driven away.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband promises a cow to tiger; wife frightens the tiger away
Filed beside it
Thor is to give his hammer in return for Freyja as wife. He masks as a woman and kills the giant who is to receive the hammer Man cheats devil of reward: to have man if he gets him at first grasp. Man holds cat which flies in devil's face. (Cf. K210.) Conquered warrior kills victor instead of paying

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