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Motif

Hypocritical stepmother weeps as she tells departing husband she will take good care of stepchildren though they beat her (she beats them instead).

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Pretended virtue. · view the constellation · filed as K2056

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Pretended virtue.

Filed beside it
Adulteress feigns unusual sensitivenessThe oversensitive bridePretended 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 moneyFox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal againHypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his handsPretended piety

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