Deceptions

3,871 motifs · page 11 of 20

• Persons duped into injuring each other. K1080
• Blind men duped into fighting. K1081
• Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
• "I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks. K1081.1.1
• Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight. K1081.2
• Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed. K1081.3
• Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it. K1082
• Enemies duped into fighting each other. K1082.0.1
• Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another. K1082.1
• Object thrown into air causes enemies to fight over it. K1082.2
• Bird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head. K1082.3
• Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession. K1083
• Liar brings about fight between dupes. K1084
• Trickster tells lies to fishes and causes them to fight. K1084.1
• Jackal tells tales so as to get buffalo and tiger to kill each other; feeds on the meat. K1084.1.1
• Liar brings enmity between friends. K1084.2
• Trickster attempts to bring friends to fight. (Plans that one kill the other.) K1084.3
• Calumniators try to bring friendly kings to fight, but fail at last. K1084.4
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. K1085
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife (to lick husband's body). K1085.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: to keep certain rendezvous. K1085.2
• Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other. K1086
• Falsified message brings about a war. K1087
• Men disrobe and report they have been attacked: bring about war. K1087.0.1
• Message falsified to bring about death of lovers. K1087.1
• Dissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in league. K1088
• Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child. K1092
• Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. K1093
• Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed. K1094
• God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father. K1094.1
• Deceptions into self injury – miscellaneous. K1110
• Dupe puts hand (paws) into cleft of tree (wedge, vise). K1111
• Dupe wishing to learn to play fiddle has finger caught in cleft of tree. K1111.0.1
• Dupe wishing to learn to play flute puts tongue in split bamboo. K1111.0.1.1
• Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. K1111.1
• Dupe caught in crack in ground. Dies. K1111.2
• Ogre helps tortoise who snaps jaws to and catches him. K1111.3
• Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the sky. K1112
• Tree becomes light (after all honey has been collected from nests), springs back and kills tribe's enemies. K1112.1
• Abandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upward. K1113
• Dupe persuaded to climb tall tree. Falls. K1113.1
• 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. K1114
• 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. K1115
• Animal gets bait from trap by luring another animal into it. K1115.1
• Dupe induced to sit on sharp stones (concealed as soft seat). K1116
• Ogre induced to sit on reversed harrow. K1117
• Wolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in face. K1121
• Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. K1121.1
• Sow kicks wolf into stream when he comes close to baptize her pigs. Thus she saves them from him. K1121.2
• Dupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killed. K1125
• 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. K1132
• Dupe persuaded to throw away his knife. Later must go hungry because he has no knife to cut the meat. K1141
• 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. K1151
• 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. K1155
• Animals hidden in various parts of a house attack owner with their characteristic powers and kill him when he enters. K1161
• Man persuaded to go to store with scythe. Is tied up as madman. K1162
• Secret learned by intoxicating dupe. K1165
• Plot to induce king to commit a crime. His line thus will forfeit succession. K1166
• Dupe tricked in race into falling into a pit. K1171
• Falling beam in cave kills travelers lured within. K1172
• Minister dupes raja into entering body of dead parrot, then enters rajah's body. K1175
• Dupe deceived concerning the thunder; finally killed by it. The dupe has asked the trickster to tell him when it thunders. K1177
• Sheep makes fox believe that the hunter is a priest, the dog his servant, etc. K1178
• Hot tin under the horse's tail. The smith promises to make the horse wild. The numskull on the horse's back. K1181
• Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent. K1182
• Tiger persuaded to cross river carrying vat rim-upwards. Trickster fills it with stones and tiger loses it. K1183
• Deception into humiliating position. K1200
• Humiliated or baffled lovers. K1210
• Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. K1211
• Lover caught in roof. K1211.1
• Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies. K1212
• Terrorizing the paramour (importunate lover). K1213
• Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. K1213.1
• Adulteress frightens paramour with cries of "Rape!" Then she removes her husband's suspicion by feigning a fit. Later the paramour tricks her to his room and shows her naked, except for face, to her husband. K1213.1.1
• Prostitute frightens lover with cries of "Thief!" Gets his money. K1213.2
• Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning. K1214
• Importunate lover induced to dress as woman and sift flour. Is shown to his wife. K1214.1
• Importunate lover is induced to undergo series of humiliations. (1) Disguise as bakery woman. (2) Disguise as priest. (3) Disguise as corpse. (4) Hiding in wine skin. Humiliated each time. K1214.1.1
• Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees. K1215
• Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. K1216
• Tale of the basin. Lover caught on magic basin and left in embarrassing position. K1217
• Importunate lovers led astray. K1218
• The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off. K1218.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens them. K1218.1.1
• The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her. K1218.1.2
• The entrapped suitor: tricked into room where he is left to himself. K1218.1.3
• Importunate lover imprisoned and starved: later given choice of lady or food. Chooses food. K1218.1.3.1
• Lover hidden by wife in room made to fall into deep pit of treacle. K1218.1.3.2
• Importunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of Lazarus. K1218.1.4
• Four importunate lovers are forced to hide in four-compartmented chest which is sold. K1218.1.4.1
• Importunate suitor enticed into sack and beaten by husband. K1218.1.5
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Importunate suitor has his head shaved and tarred and is put into a sack and returned to his men. K1218.1.7
• To get "nothing" and to show it. Wife pushes lecherous king first into glue and then in the closet with feathers. That is "nothing" – neither bird nor man. K1218.1.8
• Suitor locked in pigsty. K1218.2
• Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge. K1218.3
• Suitors as corpse, angel, and devil. First induced to lie in coffin, second to sit up with the "corpse", and the third to carry a firebrand. "Corpse" thinks others are angel and devil. All come to blows. K1218.4
• Three women humiliate importunate lover. First has him hide on thorns, second has him fall into a hole, third has him fall asleep in the street. In revenge he shows them naked, except for face, to his friends. (Cf. K1213.1.) K1218.4.1
• Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor. K1218.5
• Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard. K1218.6
• Importunate lover tied to tree. K1218.7
• Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded. K1218.8
• Obscene tricks are played on repugnant simpleton who wishes to marry. K1218.9
• Importunate lover is given a rendezvous. Obscene tricks played on him. K1218.9.1
• Wife takes lover beneath tree where she has told husband to hide. When he begins to kiss her, husband shouts "Keep a little for me." Lover, shamefaced, runs away. K1218.10
• Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed. K1222
• Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. K1223
• Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed. K1223.1
• Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge. K1223.2
• Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. K1223.2.1
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor. K1223.4
• King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid. K1223.5
• Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale). K1225
• Lover put off by deceptive respite. K1227
• Lover put off till girl bathes and dresses. She escapes. K1227.1
• Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) K1227.2
• Respite from wooer while he brings clothes all night. The girl wastes time trying them on. K1227.3
• Girl refuses to dance with a devil until she is well dressed. The devil brings things till the cock crows. Another girl asks for all the things at once and must dance until she dies. K1227.3.1
• Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes. K1227.4
• Girl tells physician-seducer she cannot meet his wishes until after he bathes. Prepares the bath herself and pours acid into it. K1227.4.1
• Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes. K1227.5
• Girl puts off consummation of marriage to undesirable suitor by saying her "stomach is sick". K1227.5.1
• Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow. K1227.6
• Girl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is made. K1227.7
• Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes. K1227.8
• Importunate lover kept overlong at supper: must leave. K1227.9
• Escape from undesired lover by alleging menstrual period. K1227.10
• Abducted princess tells her abductor to wait for her menstrual period of 12 years to terminate. K1227.10.1
• Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" K1228
• Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission. K1231
• Chaste woman refers lover to his wife. K1231.1
• Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump. K1232
• Lover's anger softened by sham suicide attempt. Is later scorned. K1232.1
• Lover humiliated by his impotence. K1233
• King tricked into sleeping with hag. K1235
• Disguise as man to escape importunate lover. K1236
• Girl plays at dice with her suitors: locks them up when they are defeated. K1237
• Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. K1240
• Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse. K1241
• Trickster rides dupe a-courting. Feigns sickness and persuades dupe to carry him. Thus wins the girl. K1241.1
• Priest trapped in window and humiliated. K1243
• Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.) K1251
• Holding up the roof. Fox pretends to be holding up the roof; hence cannot help the bear, who must do the threshing alone. K1251.1
• Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth. K1251.1.1
• Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) K1252
• Dupe persuaded to fight with alleged gold-dropping bear: trickster meantime steals his clothes. K1252.1
• The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to look. K1253
• Person hypnotized into believing himself transformed. K1262
• Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him. K1265
• Man carried and dropped in mid-stream. K1268
• Amorous intrigue observed and exposed. K1271
• Threat to tell of amorous intrigue used as blackmail. K1271.1
• The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes granted. K1271.1.1
• Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct. K1271.1.2
• Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. K1271.1.3
• Man hidden in roof sees girl and lover and falls: they flee and leave him in possession. K1271.1.4
• Man having seen woman and lover from roof threatens to tell about it; is paid to stop. K1271.1.4.1
• Man hidden in roof (or elsewhere) sees girl and lover: blows horn. They flee and leave him in possession. K1271.1.4.2
• Observer of intrigue insists on sharing in it (or enjoys the girl after putting the man to flight). K1271.1.4.3
• Lovers observed in intrigue make absurd excuses. (Afraid of ghosts, have chill, etc.) K1271.2
• Amorous intrigue exposed and faithless husband humiliated. K1271.3
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• Adulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?" K1271.4
• The Lord above will provide. A youth and maid come under tree. "Who shall provide for our child?" "He above (God) will take care of it." The man in the tree: "I will do nothing of the kind!" K1271.5
• Man abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothes. K1272
• Abbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinence. K1273
• Discovery of abbot's (abbess's) incontinence brings permission to monks (nuns) to do likewise. K1274
• Girl who cannot keep silent thereby provokes her rival to admit unchastity. K1275
• Girl refusing her lover final kiss provokes rival to admit selling kisses. K1275.1
• Woman draws a pelt to her instead of her husband. A woman asks of her husband a hair which will magically draw him to her. He gives her a hair from a pelt. K1281
• Priest draws a sow to him instead of a woman. He asks for a pubic hair which will draw the woman to him. Sow's bristles substituted. Sow rushes to church. K1281.1
• Rascals pull off judge's breeches and leave him exposed. K1285
• Mock initiation for dupe. K1286
• King induced to kiss horse's rump: trickster then threatens to tell. K1288
• Opposing witnesses's pockets filled with dung. Discredited. K1291
• Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom). K1292
• Seduction. K1300
• Mortal woman seduced by a god. (Cf. K1315.1.) K1301
• Woman won and lost by a ruse. K1302
• Seduction by disguise or substitution. K1310
• Seduction by masking as woman's husband. K1311
• Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why – you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise. K1311.0.1
• Trickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wife. K1311.0.2
• Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. K1311.1
• Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) K1314
• Seduction by impostor. K1315
• Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) K1315.1
• Seduction by posing as Angel Gabriel. K1315.1.1
• Seduction on promise that issue will be the fifth Evangelist. K1315.1.2
• Seduction on feigned orders from angel to engender a pope. Girl born. K1315.1.2.1
• Seduction by posing as doctor. K1315.2
• Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. K1315.2.1
• Seduction by sham process of retrieving lost gem. K1315.2.2
• Seduction by sham process of repairing vagina. K1315.2.3
• Seduction by pretending to give childless man's wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again. K1315.2.4
• Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) K1315.3
• Seduction by feigning enchantment. K1315.3.1
• Seduction attempted on promise of magic transformation: woman to mare. Finishing the tail. K1315.3.2
• Seduction by posing as a relative. K1315.4