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K1760 Other bluffs
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- Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up · K1761 entry
- Bluff: climbing the mast. In a contest in climbing the mast the hero falls into the rigging. "You do the same thing," he challenges. The sailors are persuaded of his expertness · K1762 entry
- Bluff in court: the stone in the purse. A poor man has a stone in his purse to throw at the judge if he is sentenced. The judge thinks that he has money to use as a bribe and acquits him · K1765 entry
- Trickster's boasting scares his powerful opponent from contest · K1766 entry
- Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels · K1767 entry
- Bluffing threat · K1771 entry
- Pretended anger · K1772 entry
- King persuades men to follow him, pretending that he is going to make peace with his brothers, instead battle · K1774 entry
- Bluff: insult repeated as harmless remark. The trickster makes an insulting remark, but when called on to repeat what he said he changes it so as to turn aside wrath · K1775 entry
- Boast where the master cannot hear. The servant boasts that he has scolded his master · K1776 entry
- When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback · K1777 entry
- Threat to build a church in hell. When the man makes this threat, he is let out of hell · K1781 entry
- Bluff: wealth gained by seeming to be in the king's confidence. Courtier asks the king for a reward that will cost nothing. He gets permission to listen to the king's devotions. He now receives bribes because of his apparent influence · K1782 entry
- Shoemaker offers to trim the peasant's feet to fit the shoes. The peasant prefers to accept the ill-fitting shoes · K1783 entry
- Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away · K1784 entry
- Miracle must wait till one man is sacrificed. No one volunteers and it does not need to be performed · K1785 entry
- Bluff: the rare vintages. Host serves many rare vintages and gets a reputation for his wine cellar. But there is only a small jug of each vintage · K1786 entry
- Man falsely claims to have killed elephant with his flat hand. Rewarded · K1787 entry
- Fox threatens to catch bird, who feeds him her young as appeasement. He threatens to push down tree or to fly · K1788 entry
- Sham duel in order to bring about recognition · K1791 entry
- Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him · K1792 entry
- Illiterate man pretends to be weeping because he cannot make others understand the book he is reading · K1795 entry
- Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice · K1796 entry