Trickster buys chickens telling owner that priest will pay. When owner comes to collect, the trickster tells the priest that a heretic has come for confession. Then he flees. (Cf. K242.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster buys chickens telling owner that priest will pay. When owner comes to collect, the trickster tells the priest that a heretic has come for confession. Then he flees. (Cf. K242.1.)

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K455.4.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under The other man to pay the bill. Three feast at an inn and each makes the host believe that one of the others will pay. None has money and the host is cheated.

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