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K1292 Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom)
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- Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse · K1241 entry
- Priest trapped in window and humiliated · K1243 entry
- Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.) · K1251 entry
- Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) · K1252 entry
- The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to look · K1253 entry
- Person hypnotized into believing himself transformed · K1262 entry
- Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him · K1265 entry
- Man carried and dropped in mid-stream · K1268 entry
- Amorous intrigue observed and exposed · K1271 entry
- Man abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothes · K1272 entry