μῦθοι Mythoi
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Double reward successfully claimedFalse claim of rewardMoney (or other things) acquired by blackmailDream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need itThe emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the impostureThe heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divideContraband gold discovered when king offers large price for goldCheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.]Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.)Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goodsCheating through knowledge of the lawDeception into giving false creditTrickster takes goods given in charity to his familyEavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it backOwner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant priceThe substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his ownSham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bearTrickster cheats rescuers into digging his well. The well that he has dug falls in. He throws his clothes into the hole and hides. People going to church think that man is drowned and dig the well outCheating through equivocationCheating by substitution of worthless articlesAttention secured by trickeryButter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buyingDemi-coq by means of his magic animals and magic water collects moneyMoney received to bury sham-dead person +14 more

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