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Motif

Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K344.1.3

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Within the index

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 pollutedThe "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 awayTrickster puts filth in food. May take it all

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