The constellation
K477 Attention secured by trickery
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other cheats · K440 entry
beneath it
- Audience secured with the pope by rudeness. A woman bribes a man to get her an audience with the pope. By turning his back to the sacrament and saying that the woman had instructed him to do so, he brings it about that she is summoned into the presence · K477.1 entry
- Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech · K477.2 entry
- Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative · K477.3 entry