Deceptions

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• Seduction by posing as nobleman. K1315.5
• Prostitute poses as noble woman. K1315.5.1
• Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman). K1315.6
• Tricksters persuade women that they must share their marital intimacies with them. K1315.6.1
• Seduction attempted on threat of performing miracle. K1315.6.2
• Girl disguised as friar gets into priest's bed. K1315.6.3
• Seduction by posing as saint. K1315.6.4
• Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor. K1315.7
• Seduction by pretending to instruct (or to need instruction) in marital duties. K1315.7.1
• Seduction under pretence of teaching a game. K1315.7.2
• Seduction upon false promise of marriage. K1315.8
• Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger. K1315.9
• Seduction by posing as beggar. K1315.10
• Seduction by posing as leper. K1315.11
• Seduction by posing as merchant. K1315.12
• Seduction by masking as soldier. K1315.13
• Seduction: weaver posing as king. K1315.14
• Lover's place in bed usurped by another. K1317
• Serving-man in his master's place. K1317.1
• Master in serving-man's place in woman's bed. (Cf. K1569.7.) K1317.1.1
• Leper intercepts letter and takes paramour's place with princess. K1317.2
• Old woman intercepts letter and takes girl's place in man's bed. K1317.2.1
• Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. K1317.2.2
• Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bed. K1317.3
• Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. K1317.4
• Woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark. K1317.5
• Use of drugs to usurp lover's place. K1317.6
• Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. K1317.6.1
• Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. K1317.7
• Moorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark). K1317.8
• Man intercepts love letter and takes lover's place in elopement. K1317.9
• Devil comes to rendezvous instead of woman's lover. K1317.10
• Trickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young couple. K1318
• Seduction by man disguising as woman. K1321
• Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction. K1321.1
• Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl's bed. K1321.1.1
• Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. K1321.1.2
• Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise. K1321.1.3
• Man disguised as woman abducts princess. K1321.2
• Man disguised as woman courted (married) by another man. K1321.3
• Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. K1321.3.1
• Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.) K1321.4
• Girl masked as man wins princess's love. K1322
• The lovely ascetic (girl in man's clothes) wins love of a rich woman. K1322.1
• Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) K1323
• Messenger from lover to girl-captive in harem poses as a singer who amuses the harem ladies in their apartments. K1323.1
• Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral. K1325
• Hero feigns death and is copulated with by divine maidens. K1325.0.1
• Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. K1325.1
• Seduction by feigned illness. K1326
• Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness. K1326.1
• Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughter. K1327
• Disguise as animal to seduce woman. K1328
• Girl tricked into man's room (or power). K1330
• "No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires. K1331
• Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K1332
• Seduction by scattering jewels. Girl seized when she tries to take jewels. K1332.1
• Seduction by enticing woman to inspect wares in tent. K1332.2
• Seduction by promise of jewels. K1332.3
• Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest. K1333
• Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey. K1334
• Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). K1335
• Magic helper brings girl to hero's bed. K1336
• Girl tricked into man's room (power) – miscellaneous. K1339
• Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. K1339.1
• Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree. K1339.2
• Seduction by luring woman to platform to look for distant ship. K1339.2.1
• Woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness. K1339.3
• Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. K1339.4
• Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. K1339.5
• Seduction by priest who insists on woman having confession in his own house. K1339.6
• Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side. K1339.7
• Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster. K1339.8
• Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. K1340
• Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal. K1341
• Entrance to woman's room in golden ram. Princess's curiosity aroused and the golden ram carried into the room. The youth is concealed inside. K1341.1
• Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest. K1342
• Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) K1342.0.1
• Entrance into woman's room in lamp stand. K1342.0.2
• Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince. K1342.1
• Man in magic hiding box bought by girl's father. K1342.1.1
• Man drawn up into female apartments on rope. K1343
• Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) K1343.1
• Man disguised as woman carried into princess's room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.) K1343.2
• Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber. K1344
• Girl seduced from beneath ground. K1344.1
• Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. K1345
• Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). K1346
• Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden's room. K1346.1
• Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed. K1347
• Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder. K1348
• Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed). K1349
• Disguise to enter girl's (man's) room. (Cf. K1310–1329, passim.) K1349.1
• Lover disguised as porter gains access to princess's room. (Cf. K1816.7.) K1349.1.1
• Disguise as madman to enter girl's room. (Cf. K1818.3.) K1349.1.2
• Trickster gains access to woman's room disguised as peddler. (Cf. K1817.4.) K1349.1.3
• Man disguised as groom enters mistress's room. K1349.1.4
• Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) K1349.1.5
• Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover. K1349.2
• Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous. K1349.3
• Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. K1349.4
• Access for seduction gained by removing locks. K1349.5
• Lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud. K1349.6
• Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved. K1349.7
• Entrance into woman's room through concealed door. K1349.8
• Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman's bed: seduces her. K1349.9
• Admission to woman's room by means of cap of invisibility. K1349.10
• Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. K1350
• The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
• Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death. K1352
• Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. K1353
• Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
• Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father. K1354
• "Both?" The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. "Both?" "Yes, I said both!" replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters. K1354.1
• Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. K1354.1.1
• Seduction by bringing false order from husband. K1354.2
• Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband's order: "Let him have what he wants." K1354.2.1
• Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: "Bear the ordeal in peace." K1354.2.2
• Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. K1354.2.3
• Seduction by bearing false order from mother. K1354.3
• Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. K1354.3.1
• Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. K1354.3.2
• Seduction by bearing false order from lover. K1354.4
• Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess. K1355
• Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. K1357
• Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs. K1358
• Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel. K1361
• Transformed person sleeps before girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Is disenchanted upon admission to the bed. K1361.1
• Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. K1361.2
• Seduction by begging into woman's room to get warm. (Cf. K1393.) K1361.3
• Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) K1362
• Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse. K1363
• Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman. K1363.1
• Putting the Devil in hand. K1363.1.1
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. K1364
• Second daughter won by representing first as dead. K1366
• Monk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces her. K1367
• Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife. K1368
• Bride-stealing. K1371
• Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1
• Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real. K1371.1.1
• Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1.2
• Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. K1371.2
• Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard. K1371.3
• Lover in disguise abducts beloved. K1371.4
• Lover masks as king, knight. K1371.4.1
• Lover masks as minstrel. K1371.4.2
• Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. K1371.5
• While chief is performing suitor task, rival steals the bride. K1371.6
• Woman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.) K1372
• Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. K1372.1
• Fool passed off as very eligible young man by matchmaker. K1372.2
• Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man. K1375
• Seduction of wife by alleging that husband's vision compels him to leave home. K1375.1
• Incestuous marriage arranged by trick. K1377
• Seductions – miscellaneous. K1380
• Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman's back: violates her. K1382
• Trickster throws corpse into river and accuses princess of murder: marriage to avoid scandal. K1383
• Female overpowered when caught in tree cleft (hole in hedge). K1384
• Man won over by woman's obscene trick. K1386
• Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them. K1387
• Trickster sends letter ordering bearer detained and meanwhile steals bearer's wife. K1388
• Husband persuaded to dig up a treasure buried in an ant hill. He is poisoned by a snake and his wife taken. K1388.1
• Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. K1391
• Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another. K1392
• Woman seduces boy by feigning illness (chill, etc.) K1393
• Man coveting his friend's wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her. K1394
• Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. K1395
• Guest at inn is told that there is but one available bed: that of the mistress. K1396
• Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. K1397
• The trickster with painted member. The father wants his daughter's child to be a bishop. K1398
• Additional seductions. K1399
• The taming of the wild prince. Lost in the woods the little prince grows up among wild animals; lets no one come near him. Only a servant girl succeeds in taming him. K1399.1
• The unusual names. Assuming unusual names, the servant deceives the girl, her mother, and her father. K1399.2
• Seduction: trickster shows girl how to store up warmth for winter. K1399.3
• Woman secures man's spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. K1399.4
• Teacher seduces pupil left in his charge. K1399.5
• Dupe's property destroyed. K1400
• Dupe's goods destroyed. K1410
• Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. K1411
• Lighting the road (or painting the house red). The house set on fire. K1412
• Guarding the door. It is lifted off and carried away. K1413
• Take care of the stopper! The son puts the stopper into his pocket, and all the tar (beer) runs out. K1414
• Repairing the house. House or furniture destroyed. K1415
• Tearing up the orchard (vineyard). Rascal has been told to cut wood. K1416
• Closing the door tight: with iron nails. K1417
• Whetting the knife: the whole blade whetted away. K1418
• Clearing land: axe broken. K1421
• Threshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flail. K1422
• Mowing grass: the meadow torn up. K1423
• Clearing out manure: digs hole. K1424
• Cleaning out manure: piles it high. K1424.1
• Covering the whole wagon with tar. K1425
• Filling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them in. K1427
• Sowing grain: does so in unplowed field. K1428
• Trickster saws legs of table so that it collapses. K1431
• Fixing fences: trickster cuts fence down. K1432
• Twisting twine: trickster cuts it. K1433
• Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. K1440