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K550 Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape
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- Escape by equivocal oath. (Cf. K475.) · K550.1 entry
- Respite from death granted until particular act is performed · K551 entry
- "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him · K553 entry
- Executioner kept busy or interested until rescue comes. Sometimes until he changes his mind · K555 entry
- Death cheated by moving bed. The man who has chosen Death as his godfather has his bed turned around when he sees Death standing at the foot of his bed. He thus escapes death · K557 entry
- Man allowed to pick out tree to be hanged on. Cannot find one · K558 entry
- Escape by persuading captor to talk · K561 entry
- Rat persuades cat to wash face before eating: escapes · K562 entry
- Escape because of plea that leaves means of egress open · K563 entry
- Thumbling in animal's belly persuades latter to go to his father's house for plunder: rescued · K565 entry
- Ass begs wolf to pull thorn out of foot before eating him: kicks wolf in mouth · K566 entry
- Escape by pretending to perform errand (do work) for captor · K567 entry
- Escape by pretending to dance so as to be untied · K571 entry
- Escape from captor by means of flattery · K572 entry
- Escape by asserting that captor will have ill luck after killing victim · K573 entry
- Escape by false prophecy: if corpses are buried in city, it will become a ruin: king releases condemned man · K575 entry
- To get out of thieves' clutch, man reports high prices in another town · K576 entry
- Escape by false plea – miscellaneous · K579 entry
keeps company
- 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
- Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird · K932 entry
- Rape · T471 entry
- Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees · A2731.1 entry
- Magic garment (robe, tunic) · D1052 entry
- Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) · D2006 entry
- Transformation to be put in food-bag · D657.1 entry
- Transformation to seduce · D658 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38