Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech — Mythoi

Motif

Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K477.2

Cited in the index

general Wesselski Mönchslatein 74 No. 64
general Wienert FFC LVI 38
general Halm Aesop Nos 177, 339.

Within the index

Filed under Attention secured by trickery.

Filed beside it

Audience secured with the pope by rudeness. A woman bribes a man to get her an audience with the pope. By turning his back to the sacrament and saying that the woman had instructed him to do so, he brings it about that she is summoned into the presence Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative

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