The constellation
K910 Murder by strategy
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- Feigning death to kill enemy · K911 entry
- Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house · K912 entry
- Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast · K913 entry
- Murder from ambush · K914 entry
- Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse · K916 entry
- Treacherous murder during hunt · K917 entry
- Man murdered while praying · K918 entry
- Fox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the water · K921 entry
- Artificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killed · K922 entry
- Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes · K923 entry
- Person cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.) · K924 entry
- Victim pushed into fire · K925 entry
- Victim pushed into water · K926 entry
- Slaughter of animals by stampede · K927 entry
- Murder through transformation · K928 entry
- Murder by strategy – miscellaneous · K929 entry