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Motif

Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K476.8

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Cheating by substitution of worthless articles.

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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 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

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