Illness feigned in order to learn secret

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Illness feigned in order to learn secret.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Other hypocritical acts. · view the constellation · filed as K2091

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Africa (Fang)Trilles 259 No. 31.

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Illness feigned in order to get better food

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Peasant has kind words for daws, but drives them from his seeds False guardian betrays refuge of fleeing lovers Love falsely pledged for wooer's benefit Hypocrisy concerning thefts Hypocrisy concerning charity Miser goes to mass before committing usury King sends regrets for death of man he has ordered executed

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