Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day

Motif

Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K236.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 306
general Scala Celi 81a No. 463
general *Crane Vitry 255 No. 277
general Herbert III 24.

Within the index

Filed under Literal payment of debt (not real).

Filed beside it

Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form Literal fulfillment of marriage contract. Man to be released when earth is placed at his head (buried). Dies in grave

Carried in tale types

Drinking only after a Bargain · ATU 14471 recorded variant

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