Numbers 106–109 and 133–136 belong to the Little Peasant cycle of
stories, Grimm 61, Bolte u. Polívka 2: 1–18.
This 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.
The first episode occurs in Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma, Wilkin’s
translation (London, 1787), 261–262, 266. The second is episode D in
Bolte u. Polívka’s analysis. The third is episode G in Bolte u.
Polívka; see note to 109.