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Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K455.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 150 No. 1848. Cf. Wesselski Bebel II 136 No. 111.
  • general *Bédier Fabliaux 447
Within the index

Filed under Deception into giving false credit.

1 finer motif beneath it
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.)
Filed beside it
Supper won by trick: the mutual friend. A parasite makes the host believe him to be a friend of a certain guest and the guest to think him a friend of the host Supper won by disguising as an invited guest Old beggar disguised as gentleman: much money borrowed on his credit The priest as surety. Feasters are imprisoned because of failure to pay for the food. They name the priest as surety and are released. The priest has been told that the host is possessed and agrees to come to heal him in two weeks. The host loses the money Complaint about the empty bottle. While the servant in the inn is bringing a glass, the trickster drinks the wine and then complains that he has been given an empty bottle. The servant must bring another Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger Credit based on forgery Worthless chests offered to obtain credit Trickster receives huge sum on trifling credit by chain of borrowings. Pays small sum in advance for first sum borrowed. Pays this borrowed sum in advance for larger, etc
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