Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward

Motif

Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K476.2.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *Wesselski Bebel I 204 No. 83.

Within the index

Filed under False articles used to produce credit.

Filed beside it

Nugget of supposed gold (lead) given to help build church: money then borrowed

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