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

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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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Pretended virtue.

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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 Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again Hypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his hands Pretended piety

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