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case it must depend on a personal judgement. I have placed them before the Russian tales. Further a variant in parenthesis means that it has not been accessible for me and a * that the version is cited from the abstracts in Bolte and Polivka’s commentaries.

To mark the content of the versions signs as follow have been used.

I. The Introduction.

1. 1. The two acting persons quarrel, A 1 about food, A 2 about money etc., A 3 The scene is removed to the sea.
   2. The two persons lay a wager that: Right or Wrong (Lie or Truth) is the Reward of the World. B 1 Thanks or Blame is the Reward of the World, B 3 The object of the wager is any religious question.
   3. One of them is blinded (or mutilated). C 1 one of them is blind beforehand.
   4. This one is left behind. D 1 near a tree, D 2 in a pond, D 3 near the gallows, D 4 in a church, D 5 on the sea, D 6 near a river, D 7 as a beggar on the highroad, D 8 in a mill.
   5. The leading person leaves the other one.
   6. The two beggars.
   7. Somebody leaves home.
   8. Poor brother asks rich brother to give him some food.
   9. Boy serves at the court, a man belies him.

II–III. Who the meeting ones are and what they talk about.

2. 1. Animals: A 1 birds, A 1 r ravens, A 1 k crows.
   2. Demon-like beings (Demons, witches) B 1 talk of their misdoings.