{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas106n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas106n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas106n.htm","text":"Numbers 106-109 and 133-136 belong to the Little Peasant cycle of stories, Grimm 61, Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka 2:1-18.\nThis number contains three episodes. (1) Three men trick another into selling a cow cheap by pretending it is a goat. He avenges himself by selling them (2) a magic hat which he claims will pay the cost of what they buy, (3) a staff of life through which they are themselves destroyed.\nThe first episode occurs in Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma, Wilkin's translation (London, 1787), 261-262, 266. The second is episode D in Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka's analysis, The third is episode G in Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka; see note to 109.\n{p. 282}","title":"Note 106. The Magic Hat and the Staff of Life.","type":"page"}