Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence

Motif

Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Clever man puts another out of countenance. · Clever man puts another out of countenance. · view the constellation · filed as J1211.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general *Köhler-Bolte II 594
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 263 No. 236

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Filed under Putting out of countenance by telling evil stories.

1 finer motif beneath it

The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership

Filed beside it

Peasant preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has instructed him to tell the truth and spare no one when he preaches Courtier having observed king's amour shields him and gains pardon. Answers in clever proverbs when called on to say what he has seen

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