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K1315 Seduction by impostor
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- Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) · K1315.1 entry
- Seduction by posing as doctor · K1315.2 entry
- Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) · K1315.3 entry
- Seduction by posing as a relative · K1315.4 entry
- Seduction by posing as nobleman · K1315.5 entry
- Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman) · K1315.6 entry
- Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor · K1315.7 entry
- Seduction upon false promise of marriage · K1315.8 entry
- Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger · K1315.9 entry
- Seduction by posing as beggar · K1315.10 entry
- Seduction by posing as leper · K1315.11 entry
- Seduction by posing as merchant · K1315.12 entry
- Seduction by masking as soldier · K1315.13 entry
- Seduction: weaver posing as king · K1315.14 entry
keeps company
- 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
- Deceptive scratching contest · K83 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38