μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cow makes a hundred-fold return. The trickster has a cow that leads the parson's cows to him. He thus tests the parson's text, "He who gives in God's name shall have it back a hundred-fold."

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Other means of theft. · view the constellation · filed as K366.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 1735
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 324
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 25
  • general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 167 No. 129.
Within the index

Filed under Thieving cow.

Filed beside it
Cow enticed away by calf. Brothers are given the choice of a cow or a calf. One chooses the cow and thinks that he has the best of the bargain. The cow longs for the calf and returns to itSelf-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its masterCows turned into rice field. Later made to disgorge rice
Carried in tale types

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