Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again — Mythoi

Motif

Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2055

Cited in the index

general *Crane Vitry 264 No. 297
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 29.

Within the index

Filed under Pretended virtue.

1 finer motif beneath it

The wolf in the company of saints. Promises to give up slaying animals. After wringing the gander's neck, excuses self saying: "He should not have hissed at the saint."

Filed beside it

Adulteress feigns unusual sensitiveness 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 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

Carried in tale types

The Fox at Court (previously Reynard the Fox at Court) · ATU 53 1 recorded variant
The Wolf Confesses his Sins to God · ATU 77* 1 recorded variant

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