Boy pretends to take long trip in order to pay debt of a penny. Thus he gets man's confidence and robs him — Mythoi

Motif

Boy pretends to take long trip in order to pay debt of a penny. Thus he gets man's confidence and robs him.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2054.1

Filed across the traditions

Korean Zong in-Sob 124 No. 60.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

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