The constellation
K724 Dupe induced to waste his bullets, then seized
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- Deception into entering bag · K711 entry
- Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered · K713 entry
- Deception into entering box (or prison) · K714 entry
- Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner · K715 entry
- Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle · K717 entry
- Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized · K721 entry
- Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up · K722 entry
- Dupe lured away from protection of friends: captured · K725 entry
- Dupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.) · K726 entry
- Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed · K728 entry