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Motifs
- Animal bribed for help. B325
- Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) B325.1
- Witch bribed to divulge her secret powers. G275.5.1
- Demons bribed with food. G582.1
- Bribed witnesses nonplussed when judge asks wrong question. J1157
- The bribed judge. J1192
- The bribed judge's ancestors. Clever animal says in court that she drops dung on ancestors of judges who take bribes (unless they confess). Judges confess. J1192.3
- The doubly-bribed judge. One of the disputants keeps the hens he is to give the judge in his hand and when the decision begins to go against him makes the hens cry out. J1212.1
- Bribed executioner releases culprit. K513
- The bribed boy sings the wrong song. The sexton steals the priest's cow. The next day the sexton's son sings, "My father stole the priest's cow." The priest pays the boy to sing the song in church. But the sexton teaches the boy a new song, "The priest has lain with my mother," and this is sung in church. K1631
- Numskull bribed to keep silent in elephant sale when he manifests interest, though utterly ignorant. N613
- Bribed false judge punished. (Cf. J1192.) Q265.1
- Escape from prison because of bribed guards. R211.9
- Priest is bribed into betraying the confessional. V468
- Death's messengers bribed with food. Z111.6.1