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Motif

Confederate answers for corpse. Man poses as returned heir to dead man; pretends to address corpse for identification.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K451.5

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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 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
Carried in tale types

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