Deception by legerdemain

Motif

Deception by legerdemain.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Illusions. · view the constellation · filed as K1871

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IrishMacCulloch Celtic 60, *Cross
Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Illusions.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Deception: climbing silk thread tossed upward in air Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient's body

Filed beside it

Camouflage Deception by sham blood. By stabbing bag of blood (or otherwise) trickster makes dupe think that he is bleeding Absent person seems to be present Illusory enemies Illusion of death Dead made to appear alive Illusions in landscape Illusory sounds Illusory light Other illusions

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