Deceptions

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• Wolf puts flour on his paw to disguise himself. K1839.1
• Girl marries lover who thought her dead. On reviving she changes her name and disguises her appearance. Eventually marries her former lover. K1839.2
• Monkey dresses in dead mistress's gown; frightens household. K1839.3
• Jester disguises as prince. K1839.4
• Friar disguises as soldier and steals from concubine. K1839.5
• Warriors whitewash weapons thus disguising identity of one of their number who bears white-handled battle-axe. K1839.6
• Disguise as foreign ambassador. K1839.7
• Disguise by carrying false token. K1839.8
• Disguise as drunkard. K1839.9
• Housemaid disguised as minister. K1839.10
• Disguise as older brother to obtain blessing. (Cf. K2211.) K1839.11
• Disguise as child (in cradle). K1839.12
• Husband disguised as wife's brother. K1839.13
• Husband and wife disguised as brother and sister. K1839.14
• Disguise as dupe's daughter after having killed her. K1839.15
• Deception by substitution. K1840
• The Virgin Mary substitutes for a mortal. K1841
• The nun who saw the world (Sister Beatrice). The Virgin takes the place of the nun in the nunnery while the latter is living a life of shame. K1841.1
• Virgin substitutes in tournament. A knight hears masses so long that he absents himself from a tournament. The Virgin takes his place. K1841.2
• Virgin Mary substitutes for woman whom husband has pledged to the devil. Devil flees. K1841.3
• Living person acts as image of saint. K1842
• Man acts as statue of saint in order to enter convent. K1842.1
• Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate. K1843
• Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancy. K1843.1
• Wife sends mistress to her husband disguised as herself. K1843.1.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation. K1843.2
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death. K1843.2.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servant. K1843.2.2
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune. K1843.2.3
• Wife substitutes for her sodomist husband. K1843.2.4
• Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband's bed. K1843.3
• Wife has maidservant impersonate her while she goes to her lover. K1843.4
• Husband deceives wife with substituted bedmate. K1844
• Husband has his strong servant substitute in bed with strong wife. The supernaturally strong wife is about to kill her husband. K1844.1
• Husband has servant substitute in bed. Instructed not to deceive him while he is calling on mistress. Instructions are not followed. K1844.1.1
• Substitute bridegroom to save husband from poison maiden. K1844.2
• Groom deceives bride with substituted bedmate and hides self in order to learn the secret she has promised to tell. K1844.3
• Fairy visits queen in her husband's shape and begets son with her. K1844.4
• Substitute in battle. K1845
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• King, fearing death at hands of enemy, forces follower to take his place on throne. Follower is killed. K1845.2
• Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
• Deception by substitution of children. K1847
• Substitution of children to gain inheritance. K1847.1
• Deceptive report of birth of heir. Queen tells king anxious for an heir that she is to give birth to a son, but that ill will befall the son if king looks upon him. K1847.1.1
• Substitute for task. K1848
• Impotent husband deceives wife by having a substitute in virility test. K1848.1
• Ruler has favorite perform tasks so that he may himself win a bride. K1848.2
• Substitute on quest. K1848.3
• Substituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the message. K1851
• Forged letter: god of death replaced by another. K1851.1
• Sleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.) K1852
• Substitute sacrifice. K1853
• Inferior animals substituted in sacrifice. K1853.1
• Person substitutes for human sacrifice. K1853.2
• Hero substitutes for princess as gift to monster. Kills him. K1853.2.1
• Servant impersonates dead master and makes a false testament. K1854
• Rascal in dead man's place in bed makes dead man's will. K1854.1
• Younger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive father. K1855
• Substitute specimen for laboratory test. K1858
• Substitute specimen in urinalysis. K1858.1
• Substitute specimen in blood test. K1858.2
• Deception by feigned death (sleep). K1860
• Death feigned in order to be carried. K1861
• Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird. K1861.1
• Death feigned to meet lover. K1862
• Death feigned to learn how soldiers are resuscitated. K1863
• False tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice. K1864
• False tidings of another's death in order to secure his bride. K1864.1
• Death feigned to establish reputation of false relic. False resuscitation. K1865
• Death feigned in order to enter land of dead. K1866
• Trickster shams death to get food. K1867
• Trickster feigns death and eats the ripe fruit from the tree. K1867.1
• Trickster shams death and eats grave offerings. K1867.2
• Deception by pretending sleep. K1868
• Illusions. K1870
• Deception by legerdemain. K1871
• Deception: climbing silk thread tossed upward in air. K1871.1
• Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient's body. K1871.2
• Camouflage. K1872
• Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.) K1872.1
• Reeds make ships appear like island. K1872.2
• Love letter hidden in apple. K1872.3
• Wound masked by other wound in order not to be recognized. K1872.4
• Banners of army appear like flock of many-colored birds. K1872.5
• Clods thrown up by hoofs of horses appear like flock of birds. K1872.5.1
• Deception by sham blood. By stabbing bag of blood (or otherwise) trickster makes dupe think that he is bleeding. K1875
• Absent person seems to be present. K1881
• Illusory enemies. K1883
• Phantom army attacked. K1883.1
• Objects (animals) attacked under the illusion that they are men. K1883.2
• Two soldiers slay each other thinking they are slaying a common enemy. K1883.3
• Slayers magically made to believe stone their enemy. They behead it. K1883.4
• Comrade slain under the illusion that he is an enemy. K1883.5
• Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread. K1883.6
• Deception: mirror-reflection convinces dupe he is trickster's captive. K1883.7
• Images set up to resemble watchmen. K1883.8
• Hero wears so many different costumes that he is believed to represent a host. K1883.9
• Illusion of death. K1884
• Dead made to appear alive. K1885
• Lighted sponge in mouth of dead causes illusory breathing. K1885.1
• Illusions in landscape. K1886
• Mirage. Illusory water and land. K1886.1
• Following luminous tree in the desert. K1886.1.1
• Mists which lead astray. K1886.2
• Enemies magically caused to lose sight of each other while hunting. K1886.2.1
• Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught. K1886.3
• Mock sunrise: person causes cock to crow (simulates cock crow). K1886.3.1
• Mock sunrise: dupe made to believe that flaunted bare buttocks are the rising sun. K1886.3.2
• Mock sunrise causes supernaturals (thieves) to drop burdens and flee. (Cf. F420.3.4.2.) K1886.3.3
• Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship. K1886.4
• Companions separated by illusory city. K1886.5
• Illusory shapes of animals made to appear on hilltops. K1886.6
• Illusory mountain (hill). K1886.7
• Tuatha Dé Danann cause island to appear to be "hog's back". K1886.7.1
• Illusory sounds. K1887
• Echo answers. K1887.1
• Deceptive nocturnal noise. Wood-spirits imitate falling of trees, etc. K1887.2
• Fairies cause sound to appear to come from various directions. K1887.3
• (Saint's) bell heard but never found. K1887.3.1
• Illusory light. K1888
• Other illusions. K1889
• House seems to be afire. (Cf. K1886.) K1889.1
• Deceptive cure by illusion. Man told that he can be cured only with blood of his own child. He is made to believe that the child is killed. When he learns that the child is still alive, the excess of joy cures him. K1889.2
• False Paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) Potion is given to dupes who are led into what they believe is Paradise. They are then forced to rob and kill to regain admittance through death. K1889.3
• Injurious food (drink) has delusive sweet taste. K1889.4
• Illusory night (darkness). K1889.5
• Palace appears to be floating on water – actually glass. K1889.6
• Other deceptions by disguise or illusion. K1890
• Deception by hiding. K1892
• Trickster hides in bag in order to be carried. His father imitates and is beaten. K1892.1
• Trickster hides in box in order to be carried. K1892.1.1
• Trickster hides in basket and is carried. K1892.1.2
• Girl hides lover under clothing upon which she sits. K1892.2
• False proof: cloak dipped into water used as evidence of stormy weather. K1894
• Impostures. K1900
• Marital impostors. K1910
• The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife. K1911
• Circumstances of substitution of false bride. K1911.1
• False bride takes true bride's place on the way to the wedding. K1911.1.1
• False bride takes true bride's place when child is born. K1911.1.2
• False bride takes true bride's place at fountain. The true bride, left by her husband for a short time at a fountain, is supplanted by a moor or gypsy, who transforms her. K1911.1.3
• False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. K1911.1.4
• Old woman substituted for bride in bridegroom's bed. K1911.1.5
• Man palms off elder daughter as younger on wedding night. K1911.1.5.1
• She-bear as false bride. Compels true bride to exchange places. K1911.1.6
• Ghost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her place. K1911.1.7
• False bride steals true bride's garments in bath. K1911.1.8
• False bride makes child cry and demand mother's clothes and ornaments. K1911.1.8.1
• Prince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in love. K1911.1.9
• Impostor kills fairy, hides body and dresses in fairy's clothes. K1911.1.10
• Treacherous disposal of true bride by false. K1911.2
• True bride transformed by false. K1911.2.1
• True bride pushed into water by false. K1911.2.2
• True bride lives in fish's belly. K1911.2.2.1
• True bride sits spinning at the bottom of river. K1911.2.2.2
• True bride's children thrown away at birth (by false bride). K1911.2.3
• Reinstatement of true bride. K1911.3
• Substitution of false bride revealed by animal. K1911.3.1
• Substitution of false bride revealed by true bride in her animal form. K1911.3.1.1
• True bride takes house near husband. Thus eventually secures his attention. K1911.3.2
• False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like. K1911.3.3
• False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected. K1911.3.3.1
• False bride fails when magician tests her. K1911.3.3.2
• True bride reincarnated as reed reveals truth. K1911.3.4
• True bride reinstated by acting as mysterious housekeeper. K1911.3.5
• Snake adopts true bride thrown into well. K1911.3.6
• Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar. K1911.4
• Penniless bride pretends to wealth. K1911.5
• The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virgin. K1912
• Abductor pretends to have been sent to fetch princess by lover. K1914
• The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom. K1915
• Monk becomes husband to girl at night, so that his friend may have dowry. K1915.1
• Through power of saint, man is caused to assume lover's form and sleep with princess. Lover plots death of saint, but is accidentally slain in his place. K1915.2
• Handsome man substituted for ugly as bridegroom: wins bride. K1915.3
• Robber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentleman. K1916
• Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth. K1917
• Penniless wooer: patch of land. After marriage he takes the bride to look at his land. He puts on soiled clothes. She looks at the land; he points to the patch on his clothes. "That patch is mine." K1917.1
• Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
• Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him. K1917.3
• Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
• Man wins girl's love by pretending to wealth and nobility. Deception is discovered and impostor is banished. K1917.5
• Forged credentials used to win girl. Theft of gems. K1917.6
• "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding. K1917.7
• Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage. K1917.8
• Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form. K1918
• Ugly fish borrows skin of handsome fish for courtship and marriage. K1918.1
• Ogre imposes on widow by assuming form of dead husband. K1918.1.1
• Marital impostors – miscellaneous. K1919
• Husband poses as wife's brother. K1919.1
• Substituted children. K1920
• Parents exchange children. K1921
• Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. K1921.1
• Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl. K1921.2
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• The false heir. K1923
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him. K1923.2
• Barren woman pretends to bear child. Substitutes another woman's child. K1923.3