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Motifs
- Pretended exchange of confidences as to the one thing that can kill. K975.1
- Paramour feigns loss of genitals in order to obtain the husband's confidence. K1586
- Bluff: wealth gained by seeming to be in the king's confidence. Courtier asks the king for a reward that will cost nothing. He gets permission to listen to the king's devotions. He now receives bribes because of his apparent influence. K1782
- Boy pretends to take long trip in order to pay debt of a penny. Thus he gets man's confidence and robs him. K2054.1
- Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food. K2141
- Confessor and penitent exchange confidences. Balance sins and cancel wrongs. V29.7