False articles used to produce credit — Mythoi

Motif

False articles used to produce credit.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K476.2

Within the index

Filed under Cheating by substitution of worthless articles.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) Water sold as wine. Wine-casks partitioned: one half wine, other half water False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster Woman gives friend dried comb while she herself eats the honey Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one

Carried in tale types

Unjust Banker Deceived into Delivering Deposits · ATU 1617 1 recorded variant

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