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 it — Mythoi

Motif

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 it.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Other means of theft. · view the constellation · filed as K366.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Indo-Chinese Scott Indo-Chinese 296.

Within the index

Filed under Thieving cow.

Filed beside it

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." Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master Cows turned into rice field. Later made to disgorge rice

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