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Motifs
- Riddle propounded on pain of loss of official position. H541.3
- Symbolic interpretation of official robes. H608
- Choice between bad master, bad official, or bad neighbor. Bad master can do evil if he desires to do so; bad official can harm a poor person and complain against him to his master; bad neighbor can betray secret things about his neighbors. Bad neighbor worst. J229.5
- Presumptuous officials disregarded by council. J982
- Clever official. J1115.10
- Theft by disguising as palace official. K311.10
- Unjust official outwitted by peasant who quarrels with him and thus turns the attention of the ruler to the abuses. K1657