The constellation
K810 Fatal deception into trickster's power
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- Victim lured into house and killed · K811 entry
- Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place) · K812 entry
- Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him · K813 entry
- Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed · K814 entry
- Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed · K815 entry
- Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed · K816 entry
- Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed · K818 entry
- Fairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killed · K821 entry
- Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him · K822 entry
- Sham doctor kills his patients · K824 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
- Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them · K826 entry
- Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seized · K827 entry
- Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal · K828 entry
- Victim killed while being bathed · K831 entry
- Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed · K832 entry
- Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed · K833 entry
- Victim killed while asleep in killer's house · K834 entry
- Dragon deceived into listening to tale: hero cuts off its head · K835 entry
- Ferocious boar fed and put to sleep by rubbing. Killed. (Aper.) · K836 entry
- Victim killed while load is being taken from his back · K837 entry
- Victim lured into trough: is pounded up with poisoned fish · K838 entry
- Fatal deception into trickster's power – miscellaneous · K839 entry