The "spoiled" anchovies. Servant eats all of master's anchovies. When master asks for some, the servant brings in a covered dish, and tells him that the fish smell very bad. The master tells the servant to throw them away

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The "spoiled" anchovies. Servant eats all of master's anchovies. When master asks for some, the servant brings in a covered dish, and tells him that the fish smell very bad. The master tells the servant to throw them away.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K344.1.2

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Filed under Trickster gives a woman a knife to cut him a slice of white bread. He gets the whole loaf when he says that he has just cut a dog with the same knife.

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The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner Trickster puts filth in food. May take it all

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