The constellation
K1200 Deception into humiliating position
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- Tiger persuaded to cross river carrying vat rim-upwards. Trickster fills it with stones and tiger loses it · K1183 entry
- Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent · K1182 entry
- Hot tin under the horse's tail. The smith promises to make the horse wild. The numskull on the horse's back · K1181 entry
- Sheep makes fox believe that the hunter is a priest, the dog his servant, etc · K1178 entry
- Humiliated or baffled lovers · K1210 entry
- Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze · K1211 entry
- Lover caught in roof · K1211.1 entry
- Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies · K1212 entry