The peasant has his ox study. The man who is to teach the ox [K491] slaughters it and tells the peasant that it has gone to the city and become a merchant (mayor). The peasant goes to visit him, meets a man who is named Peter Ox (or the like) and…
When he is to keep guard he goes to bathe. The king comes and the soldier takes his place naked. The king invites him to come naked to the castle. He asks which of the women want him for a husband. A general's daughter. The soldier is promoted to be…
A poet is given by the king the right to demand a coin from the first hunchback he meets, from the first man of a certain name, and the first man of a certain city. He sees a hunchback and demands the coin. A quarrel arises in which it appears that…
The eaten grain and the cock as damages. Cf. Type 170.
I. Profitable Exchanges. (a) The hero has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock and he gets the cock as damages [K251.11. (b) Likewise when the hog eats the cock, and (c) the ox eats the…
(formerly 1653*, 1654**). When a man comes to another to demand payment of a debt, the latter feigns death. The creditor keeps watch over the corpse. Robbers come to divide their money. The creditor and the feigned dead man divide the robber's money…
A fool carries animal entrails up into the tree. Below him rests a prince and his entourage. The fool drops the entrails on the prince, who flees with his followers, leaving behind all his goods, which the fool appropriates.