The constellation
K1771 Bluffing threat
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other bluffs · K1760 entry
beneath it
- Sham threat: "In earnest or in jest?" A man asks another who has brushed against him: "Did you do that in earnest or in jest?" – "In earnest." – "I am glad, for I don't like that kind of jesting." · K1771.1 entry
- Sham threat: either ... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)." · K1771.2 entry
- Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work." · K1771.3 entry
- Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel · K1771.4 entry
- Sham threat: if I were not a philosopher I should break your head for you · K1771.5 entry
- Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns · K1771.6 entry
- Sham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending ship · K1771.7 entry
- Sham dream prophesying shipwreck makes people leave ship so that there is room enough for man who wants to go · K1771.8 entry
- King menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet · K1771.9 entry
carried in tale type
- Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law · ATU 903C*