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

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

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.

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.

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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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