Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail.
Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K443
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Scholars’ trail — 3references
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.
- U.S.Baughman
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- West IndiesFlowers 512.
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13 finer motifs beneath 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 carelessnessTrickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess nakedFox 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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Double reward successfully claimedFalse claim of rewardDream 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 itThe 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 impostureThe 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 divideContraband gold discovered when king offers large price for goldCheater 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 goodsCheating through knowledge of the lawDeception into giving false creditTrickster takes goods given in charity to his familyEavesdropping 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 backOwner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant priceThe 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 ownSham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear