Deceptions

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• Fox threatens to catch bird, who feeds him her young as appeasement. He threatens to push down tree or to fly. K1788
• Sham duel in order to bring about recognition. K1791
• Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. K1792
• Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. K1792.1
• Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. K1792.2
• Illiterate man pretends to be weeping because he cannot make others understand the book he is reading. K1795
• Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. K1796
• Deception by disguise or illusion. K1800
• Deception by disguise. K1810
• Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person. K1810.1
• Fool wears king's crown. K1810.1.1
• Lover disguised in slain enemy's clothes. K1810.1.2
• Taking king's place by changing dresses. K1810.1.3
• Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger. K1810.2
• Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart. K1810.3
• Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals. K1811
• Mortal entertained by disguised god. K1811.0.1
• Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. K1811.0.2
• Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. K1811.1
• Deity disguised as old man (woman) visits mortals. K1811.2
• God disguised as doctor cures mortal. K1811.3
• Deity takes form of particular person to visit mortals. K1811.4
• Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. K1811.4.1
• Angel takes form of certain person. K1811.4.2
• Deity takes form of animal to visit mortals. K1811.5
• King in disguise. K1812
• King disguised beaten by his own men. K1812.0.1
• Incognito king helped by humble man. Gives reward. K1812.1
• Incognito king is asked by humble man to aid him. K1812.1.1
• Incognito king joins robbers. K1812.2
• Incognito king joins robbers: to take only six shillings. The robber tells him that he must take no more, since the king has so many robbers. K1812.2.1
• Incognito prince joins gamblers. He is beaten for showing courtesy. Realizes his folly and returns home. K1812.2.2
• Prince disguises as another prince to woo princess. K1812.3
• Incognito king is given hospitality by fisherman. Rewards him with a city. K1812.4
• Incognito king in victor's court. Asks forgiveness. K1812.5
• Ruler disguises as goblin to frighten uxorious priest. K1812.6
• King disguises as common soldier and is killed. Fulfills prophecy that insures victory. K1812.7
• Incognito queen (princess). K1812.8
• Queen flees husband's persecution disguised as knight. K1812.8.1
• Incognito princess travels as bishop (monk). K1812.8.2
• Disguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned. (Cf. H1187.) K1812.8.3
• Incognito king rewards farmer for gift. K1812.9
• King disguised as peasant flees battle. K1812.10
• Incognito prince (king) sold into slavery. Disguised as sailor. K1812.11
• Incognito king comes to the aid of an enemy who has refused to vilify him. K1812.12
• Incognito king rewards strangers who treat him as companion. K1812.13
• Lecherous prince disguises as merchant in order to kill his grand-children. K1812.14
• King in disguise of merchant is given hospitality by enemy. K1812.14.1
• King disguised as own messenger. K1812.15
• King disguised as mountaineer. K1812.16
• King in disguise to spy out his kingdom. K1812.17
• Fallen king in disguise recognized by former ally and helped. K1812.18
• King in disguise as one of his own men rescued in fighting alone against four. K1812.19
• Count in disguise. K1812.20
• Disguised husband visits his wife. K1813
• Disguised husband wins his faithless wife's love. K1813.1
• Disguised husband shows his wife that he is not repulsive, as she thinks him. K1813.1.1
• Disguised husband shows his wife that he is not a good-for-nothing as she thinks him. K1813.1.2
• Disguised husband spies on his faithless wife. K1813.2
• Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. K1814
• Prince disguised as merchant seduces a queen. (Cf. K1349.3.1.) K1814.1
• Wife substitutes for princess, who has been jailed with husband. Before judge says: "What harm is there in a man being with his own wife?" K1814.2
• Wife disguised as fakir makes her husband, the king, fulfill her will. K1814.3
• Husband twits wife regarding "bought kiss"; she makes him buy one from her by disguising herself. K1814.4
• Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) K1815
• Disguise with hood dropping low over the face. K1815.0.1
• Return home in humble disguise. K1815.1
• Pious pilgrim dies unknown in his father's house. (Miraculous manifestations.) K1815.1.1
• Ugly disguise. K1815.2
• Disguise as menial. K1816
• God disguised as menial. K1816.0.1
• Girl in menial disguise at lover's court. K1816.0.2
• Menial disguise of princess's lover. K1816.0.3
• Hero in menial disguise at heroine's wedding. K1816.0.3.1
• Scholar disguised as a rustic along road answers questions of school inspector in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. K1816.0.4
• Gardener disguise. K1816.1
• Pope disguised as caulker. K1816.2
• Disguise as woodcutter. K1816.3
• Disguise as potter. K1816.4
• Disguise as goose-girl (turkey-girl). K1816.5
• Disguise as tender of birds. K1816.5.1
• Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) K1816.6
• Disguise as porter. K1816.7
• Disguise as stable-boy. K1816.8
• Disguise as peasant. K1816.9
• Wise men disguise as peasants. K1816.9.1
• Disguise as cobbler (shoemaker). K1816.10
• Nobleman disguises as cobbler to woo woodcutter's daughter. K1816.10.1
• Disguise as carpenter. K1816.11
• Disguise as smith. K1816.12
• Disguise as slave. K1816.13
• Disguise as wanderer. K1817
• Disguise as beggar (pauper). K1817.1
• Disguise as fakir. K1817.1.1
• Disguise as palmer (pilgrim). K1817.2
• Disguise as harper (minstrel). K1817.3
• Disguise as poet. K1817.3.1
• Disguise as merchant. K1817.4
• Disguise as peddler. K1817.4.1
• Queen disguised as peddler. K1817.4.1.1
• Queen disguised as peddler sells children poisoned cheese. K1817.4.1.1.1
• Disguise as gypsy. K1817.5
• Disguise as sick man. K1818
• Disguise as leper. K1818.1
• Scald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldhead. K1818.2
• Disguise as madman (fool). K1818.3
• Wise man disguised as buffoon. K1818.3.1
• Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool. K1818.3.2
• Sharp man pretends to be stupid so as to be included in plans and conversation of plotters. K1818.3.3
• Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainment. K1818.4
• Animal feigns lameness. K1818.5
• Deception by pretended faint. K1818.6
• Disguise by changing bodily appearance. K1821
• Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black. K1821.1
• Disguise by painting body. K1821.2
• Disguise by veiling face. K1821.3
• Veiled adulteress flees with paramour who has enlisted duped husband's aid. K1821.3.1
• Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). K1821.4
• Disguise as hairy man by putting on lambskins. K1821.4.1
• Disguise by dyeing complexion. K1821.5
• Disguise by cutting one eye out. K1821.6
• Beautiful woman in hideous disguise. K1821.7
• Beautiful woman blackens face as disguise. K1821.7.1
• Disguise as old man. K1821.8
• Disguise in wooden covering. K1821.9
• Disguise in bark of birch. K1821.9.1
• Disguise by cutting off hair. K1821.10
• Animal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.) K1822
• Lion disguised as monk. K1822.1
• Fox disguised as scholar. K1822.2
• Bad breath and forked tongue reveal identity of snake-king in guise of human. K1822.3
• Tiger disguises as human being. K1822.4
• Man disguises as animal. K1823
• Man disguises as tortoise. K1823.1
• Man disguised as elephant. K1823.2
• Man disguised as lamb. K1823.3
• Man disguised as bear. K1823.4
• Satan disguised as deer. (Cf. K1811.) K1823.5
• Disguise as layman. Priest disguises as layman. K1824
• Disguise as professional man. K1825
• Disguise as doctor. K1825.1
• Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart. K1825.1.1
• Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. K1825.1.1.1
• Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician. K1825.1.2
• Trickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheaters. K1825.1.3
• Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. K1825.1.4
• Animal disguised as doctor. (Cf. K1822.) K1825.1.5
• Disguise as physician to poison enemies. K1825.1.6
• Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband. K1825.2
• Disguise as barber. K1825.3
• Disguise as hospitaller. K1825.4
• Disguise as soldier. K1825.5
• Disguise as dancer. K1825.6
• Twelve men in disguise as carpenters are engaged to build hall for the king's wedding: they abduct the bride. K1825.7
• Disguise as astrologer. K1825.8
• Disguise as churchman (cleric). K1826
• Disguise as monk. K1826.1
• Lover disguised as monk or friar meets sweetheart. K1826.1.1
• Disguise as ascetic. K1826.2
• Lover masks as anchorite to reach sweetheart. K1826.3
• Disguise as missionary. K1826.4
• Disguise as priest. K1826.5
• Bishop disguised as priest. K1826.5.1
• Disguise as holy man. K1827
• Ogre disguised as holy man. K1827.0.1
• Barber passes for a brahmin. K1827.0.2
• Disguise as saint. Man beats wife for spending too much time at church. Wife has maids dress as her patron saints and when the husband repeats the beating she calls on them for help. The husband is beaten. K1827.1
• Disguise as yogi. K1827.2
• Disguise as deity (or spirit). K1828
• Disguise as angel. K1828.1
• Woman disguised as angel of death. K1828.1.1
• Disguise as goddess. K1828.2
• Service under a false name. K1831
• Disguise by changing name. K1831.0.1
• Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names. K1831.1
• Service in disguise. K1831.2
• Service in disguise in order to seduce king's daughter by putting love charm in her food. K1831.2.1
• Lover in disguise as duke's son takes service under king with his followers in order to abduct his sister. K1831.2.2
• Disguise by changing voice. K1832
• Disguise as ghost. K1833
• Multiple disguise: one person disguising successively seems to be many. K1834
• Disguise for spying. (Cf. K1812.) K1835
• Disguise of man in woman's dress. K1836
• Husband disguises as woman to spy on wife. (Cf. K1835.) K1836.1
• Boy disguises as woman to embarrass incontinent priest. K1836.2
• Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) K1836.3
• Disguise as a weeping woman to attract attention. K1836.4
• Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) K1837
• Boasting coward exposed by wife who masks as highwayman and robs him. K1837.1
• Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) K1837.2
• Repentant nurse disguises as hermit. K1837.3
• Girl in man's clothes avenges her father. K1837.4
• Wife disguises as a man and outwits landlord of inn when he tries same trick he has played on her husband to get all of his goods, etc. K1837.5
• Disguise of woman as a soldier. K1837.6
• Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). K1837.7
• Woman in male disguise made king. K1837.8
• Woman in male disguise made minister. K1837.8.1
• Disguise as devil. Priest disguises as devil and "haunts" neighbor's house. Buys it cheaply. K1838
• Tricksters change man's furniture. He thinks it is the work of demons. He sells them his house cheaply. K1838.1
• Other deceptions by disguise. K1839