μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Type 850
  • general *BP II 528.
Within the index

Filed under Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriageTrickster exacts money as price of silence after lying with princess (queen)
Filed beside it
Hidden paramour buys freedom from discovererClever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her. Payment for keeping silenceMoney exacted from watchers who permit goods to be stolenMoney exacted from watcher who permits theft of wooden cow supposed to be realTrickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessnessFox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each timePriest induced to betray secrets of confessional: money then exacted from him for silence. The trickster confesses that he has had intimacies with the priest's maid and then overhears the priest scold the maidWomen lead man into intrigue and then shout for help. Get moneyRascal extorts money for silence about companion's povertyUsurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wifePrincess has brought ill luck to bridegroom. When palace and retainers disappear after wedding and only humble hut remains, clever fox tells king his daughter's feet have brought ill luck to the groom, his master. King gives half his kingdom in compensationRascal extorts money for silence about breach of food tabu
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