Motif
reciprocal false claim exposes theft
reciprocal_false_claim_exposes_theft
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Theft, Stolen Goods, and Pursuit. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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More Jataka Tales THE HAWKS AND THEIR FRIENDS / THE BRAVE LITTLE BOWMAN / THE FOOLHARDY WOLF / THE STOLEN PLOW; lines 1172-1239 confidence: high
The two traders are friends; the village trader leaves his plow with the town trader, who sells it, keeps the money, and says, “The mice have eaten your plow.”
The village trader answers the town trader’s false claim that mice ate the plow with a parallel false claim that a bird carried off the son, forcing the contradiction into view.
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