Tiger persuaded to cross river carrying vat rim-upwards. Trickster fills it with stones and tiger loses it.
Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deceptions into self injury – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1183
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Filed under Deceptions into self injury – miscellaneous.
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Dupe puts hand (paws) into cleft of tree (wedge, vise) Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the sky Abandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upward Fox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamed The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught Dupe induced to sit on sharp stones (concealed as soft seat) Ogre induced to sit on reversed harrow Wolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in face Dupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killed Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again Dupe persuaded to throw away his knife. Later must go hungry because he has no knife to cut the meat The lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered Animals hidden in various parts of a house attack owner with their characteristic powers and kill him when he enters Man persuaded to go to store with scythe. Is tied up as madman Secret learned by intoxicating dupe
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