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Trickster sells mother's wine to merchant without asking her permission. Mother saves part of wine because purchaser is dilatory in removing casks Object with a hollow as instrument of cheats Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture Trickster breaks cat of taste for milk by overheating its milk Embarrassing gift. Trickster unwilling to pay for burial fee of aged cow, gives cow to unwitting Brahmin as gift. Cow dies soon and Brahmin must pay God cheats birds by giving false description of tamarind fruit Gullible king gives large sums to minister for construction of imaginary weapon and then more to have it destroyed Trickster dupes rival by exchanging beds: receives his food. Overhears maiden tell rival she will bring food at night, waits until rival is asleep and carries him to another bed, takes his place, and is fed by maiden Treacherous friend drinks out of other's flask to save the water in his own Fox pretends to go to work, but goes out to sleep
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Double reward successfully claimed False claim of reward Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.] Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.) Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goods Cheating through knowledge of the law Deception into giving false credit Trickster takes goods given in charity to his family Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own
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