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

Motif

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.

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

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

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Filed under Pretended virtue.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Adulteress feigns unusual sensitiveness The oversensitive bride 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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