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Motifs
- Test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder. H1556.3
- Fox stumbles over violin. Chased from chicken coop by dogs. When he stumbles he says, "What a fine opportunity to dance if I had time!" J864.1
- Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
- Escape by asking a last kiss. Uses the opportunity to attack adversary. K551.10
- Escape from robbers by pretending to be going the same way but separating at the first opportunity. K579.3