Water sold as wine. Wine-casks partitioned: one half wine, other half water — Mythoi

Motif

Water sold as wine. Wine-casks partitioned: one half wine, other half water.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K476.3

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Cheating by substitution of worthless articles.

1 finer motif beneath it

Innkeeper serves sweetened water for wine, cat for rabbit, mule for beef

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.) False articles used to produce credit 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

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