Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative — Mythoi

Motif

Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K477.3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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

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