Deception into giving false credit.
Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K455
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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 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 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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Double reward successfully claimed False claim of reward Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.] Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.) Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goods Cheating through knowledge of the law Trickster takes goods given in charity to his family Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear
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