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  • Icelandic*Boberg.
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Filed under Escape by shamming death.

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Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.)Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out)Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already."Death feigned to escape from husband's death plotCaptive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escapeEscape by shammed burialSham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered himEscape by shammed hanging

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