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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K451.3

Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Chauvin II 91 No. 34
general Bødker Exempler 287 No. 36
general Penzer V 59 n. 2
general Edgerton JAPS XL 271

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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

Tree as Witness · ATU 1543E*1 recorded variant

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