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  • general Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 77.
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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 divideCheater 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 bear

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