Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager — Mythoi

Motif

Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K451.1

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Gaster Exempla 191 No. 29, Neuman
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 395.
general *Type 613
general *BP II 468ff.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 489
general **Christiansen FFC XXIV 46ff.

Within the index

Filed under Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.)

Filed beside it

The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs Concealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealed Trickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond Confederate answers for corpse. Man poses as returned heir to dead man; pretends to address corpse for identification

Carried in tale types

The Two Travelers · ATU 613 324 recorded variants
The Judge Appropriates the Object of Dispute · ATU 926D 1 recorded variant

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