Half a grain. Trickster drops half a grain into grain cellar then demands half of the grain supply — Mythoi

Motif

Half a grain. Trickster drops half a grain into grain cellar then demands half of the grain supply.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K446.1

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

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