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K1084 Liar brings about fight between dupes
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- Trickster tells lies to fishes and causes them to fight · K1084.1 entry
- Liar brings enmity between friends · K1084.2 entry
- Trickster attempts to bring friends to fight. (Plans that one kill the other.) · K1084.3 entry
- Calumniators try to bring friendly kings to fight, but fail at last · K1084.4 entry
keeps company
- Seduction by impostor · K1315 entry
- Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction · K1321.1 entry
- Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream · K1391 entry
- Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another · K1392 entry
- Trickster shams death to get food · K1867 entry
- Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions · K1983 entry
- Thief frightens owner from goods · K335 entry
- Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape · K550 entry
- Animal "punished" by being placed in favorite environment · K581 entry
- Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) · K825 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38