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J2310 Nature of gullibility
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- Person made to believe that he is dead · J2311 entry
- Naked person made to believe that he is clothed · J2312 entry
- Layman made to believe that he is a monk · J2314 entry
- Wife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absence · J2315 entry
- Husband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his house · J2316 entry
- Well man made to believe that he is sick · J2317 entry
- Numskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theft · J2318 entry
- Man made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child) · J2321 entry
- Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heaven · J2322 entry
- Numskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriage · J2323 entry
- Wife persuades her husband to have a good tooth pulled · J2324 entry
- Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning · J2325 entry
- The student from paradise. A student tells a woman that he comes from Paris. She understands him to say from paradise and gives him money and goods to take to her husband · J2326 entry
- Man who asks for good weather given a box full of hornets. He thinks that it is filled with the weather · J2327 entry
- The moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over it · J2328 entry
- Numskull with unimportant office boasts of it · J2331 entry
- Fool locked in dark room made to believe that it is continuous night · J2332 entry
- The sledges turned in the direction of the journey. At night turned around by a joker · J2333 entry
- Master persuaded to buy big fish since small ones creep out of all parts of his body · J2334 entry
- The stag with iron shoes. Hunters shoot a stag and hide it. Another who sees puts a dead ass in the bag instead. When the bag is opened, one cries, "Oh Jesus, we have shot a stag with iron shoes!" · J2335 entry
- Jewess makes parents believe that she is to give birth to the Messiah. She bears a girl · J2336 entry
- Dupe persuaded that he is invisible · J2337 entry
- Adulteress makes husband believe that the birth of her mulatto child has been due to suggestion · J2338 entry
- Near-sighted man persuaded by doctor that he can see · J2341 entry