One observes that all the stories about the cloven hoof being found out and the devil shooed away always seem to have peasants or naive every-men as their prota

One observes that all the stories about the cloven hoof being found out and the devil shooed away always seem to have peasants or naive every-men as their protagonists, mayhaps the upstairs strata are just less bothered by a bone or two leaking from the closet, maybe it is just table stakes for them.