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Dream 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 it.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K444

Filed across the traditions
  • Russian Andrejev No. 2100*
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 1626
  • general **Baum JAFL XXX 378
  • general *BP IV 139
  • general *Dunlop-Wilson II 201
  • general Basset 1001 Contes I 516
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95
  • general Barbeau JAFL XXXII 178
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 243 No. 540
  • general *Oesterley No. 106
  • general Scala Celi 73a No. 415
  • general Ward II 240
  • general Herbert III 246

…and 3 more.

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Filed under Other cheats.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Egg as reward of appropriate saying. First brother (knocking egg against wall): "Casca cascorum." Second (breaking shell and sprinkling dirt over it): "Sar, sale, sapiensa". Third (eating egg): "Consumatus es." Bag of cakes said to be full of cobras. Boy eats cakes The bag with the rice for the road. Boy eats rice and throws empty bag on the road
Filed beside it
Double reward successfully claimed False claim of reward Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail The 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 imposture The 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 divide Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold Cheater 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 goods Cheating through knowledge of the law Deception into giving false credit Trickster takes goods given in charity to his family Eavesdropping 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 back Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price The 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 own Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear
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