Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail.
Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K443
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- U.S. Baughman
- India Thompson-Balys
- West Indies Flowers 512.
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Filed under Other cheats.
13 finer motifs beneath 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 Women lead man into intrigue and then shout for help. Get money 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
Filed beside it
Double reward successfully claimed False claim of reward Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.] Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.) Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goods Cheating through knowledge of the law Deception into giving false credit Trickster takes goods given in charity to his family Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear
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