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K522 Escape by shamming death
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- Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) · K522.0.1 entry
- Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out) · K522.1 entry
- Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." · K522.2 entry
- Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot · K522.3 entry
- Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape · K522.4 entry
- Escape by shammed burial · K522.5 entry
- Escape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin lands · K522.6 entry
- Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him · K522.7 entry
- Escape by shammed hanging · K522.8 entry
carried in tale type
- The Hedgehog's Only Trick · ATU 105*
- The Fox Plays Dead and Is Thrown out of the Pit and Escapes · ATU 33