Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer — Mythoi

Motif

Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by equivocation. · view the constellation · filed as K2313

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 376–387 passim.

Within the index

Filed under Deception by equivocation.

Filed beside it

The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel Oath literally obeyed One day and one night. Saint has tribute remitted for a day and a night, i.e. forever, because there is but one day and one night in time Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket Thieves dig field and drain tank when miser says gold is hidden there Deception by equivocation – miscellaneous

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