False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned

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False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K484.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian NovellaRotunda
PersianLorimer Persian Tales (London, 1919) 321 No. 52.
general Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 4

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Filed under Cheating by raising an alarm.

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Trickster gets money from a bank by raising an alarm and demanding "what is owing to him."Host with overstock of sour wine spreads rumor of dragon at his house. A crowd gathers and he sells all his wine

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