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Motifs
- Tests of honesty. H1555
- Test of honesty: man entrusted with treasure. H1555.1
- Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
- Intemperance in honesty. J556
- Cynical retorts concerning honesty. J1370
- Partnership of Honesty and Fraud: Fraud loses. Fraud has cheated his partner, Honesty. They hire a housekeeper. Fraud is to have use of her right side, Honesty of her left. The left side is of little use. Fraud falls in love with her and pays Honesty double all his losses to relinquish his rights. K1635
- Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
- Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money. K2054
- Honesty rewarded. Q68.2
- Habit of dishonesty (thievery) cannot be broken. U138
- Dishonesty. W157