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Motif

Women lead man into intrigue and then shout for help. Get money.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K443.9

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Hidden paramour buys freedom from discoverer Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her. Payment for keeping silence Money exacted from watchers who permit goods to be stolen Money exacted from watcher who permits theft of wooden cow supposed to be real Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked Fox 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 time Priest 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 maid Rascal extorts money for silence about companion's poverty Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife Princess 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 compensation Rascal extorts money for silence about breach of food tabu

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