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Motif

Adulteress feigns unusual sensitiveness.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2051

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Filed under Pretended virtue.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Adulteress pretends shame before male statue (mirror, male fish) Adulteress pretends to faint when her husband strikes her with a rose. She has allowed her lover to abuse her Adulteress feigns great disdain of men; will look at none but husband (and lover) Women adorn their heads, though they are immoral below
Filed beside it
The oversensitive bride Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again Hypocritical stepmother weeps as she tells departing husband she will take good care of stepchildren though they beat her (she beats them instead) Hypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his hands Pretended piety

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