Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form

Motif

Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K236.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish myth*Cross.

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Filed under Literal payment of debt (not real).

1 finer motif beneath it

Saint ransoms prince for much gold and silver. Later all the money vanishes. Saint replies that since the money had been created from nothing, it had simply to return to that state

Filed beside it

Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day Literal fulfillment of marriage contract. Man to be released when earth is placed at his head (buried). Dies in grave

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