Temporary advantage gained by pretending to yield in a combat — Mythoi

Motif

Temporary advantage gained by pretending to yield in a combat.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Miscellaneous deceptions. · view the constellation · filed as K2378

Cited in the index

general *Dickson 175 n. 38.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous deceptions.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes Warrior consents to flee for the sake of future victory Enemies deceived through shammed flight Ammunition saved till enemy has used his Hero sleeps during the first part of battle and emerges only later

Filed beside it

Deceiving the higher powers (God, the saints, the gods, fate) Enemies reconciled by gifts which the one's son tells are sent from the other The returned box on the ears. At table each gives his neighbor a box on the ears. The soldier is to give it to the king, but he returns it to the courtier from whom he has received it Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it Ruler diverts attention from misgovernment by beginning a war One animal injures another by deception Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move Man tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his mother Demon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilled Attempt to kill by throwing knife

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