Deceptions

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• Disguise as leper to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1818.1.) K2357.11
• Disguise as carpenter (tradesman) to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1816.11.) K2357.12
• Disguise as juggler to enter enemy's camp. K2357.13
• Disguise as churl (bachlach) to enter enemy's hall. K2357.14
• Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. K2357.15
• Man disguised as animal sent among enemy that first blood be spilled by other side. K2358
• Woman saves herself from soldiers by receiving them joyfully rather than fearfully. K2361
• Capture of castle by feigning death. K2362
• Spies' false report of enemies' weakness brings on premature attack. K2363
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K2363. Women sent into enemies' camp corrupt and weaken the army.] K2363[1st ed.]
• Enemy's ships fired by use of fireship. K2364
• Enemies defeated by setting forest afire. K2364.1
• Enemy induced to give up siege. K2365
• Enemy induced to give up siege by pretending to have plenty of food. K2365.1
• Enemy induced to surrender city by show of wealth on part of besiegers, who shoot golden apples over walls. K2365.2
• Enemy soldiers persuaded by show of great wealth and generosity of king to desert to his side. K2365.3
• City is falsely promised to enemy. When they enter they are attacked and defeated. K2366
• Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. K2366.1
• Besieger scatters beads in protecting hedge: besieged destroy hedge to find beads. K2367
• Enemy deceived into overestimating opponents: retreat. (Cf. K548.) K2368
• Sound of artillery is simulated to overawe enemy. K2368.1
• Persons run wagon back and forth over a corduroy bridge to simulate sound of artillery. K2368.1.1
• Sounds of mock battle scare away attacking force. K2368.2
• Sounds of battle in playhouse scare away attacking soldiers. K2368.2.1
• Sham doctor prescribes medicine for king's army; they fall ill; invading army, seeing multitudes being carried away in litters, flee, thinking there is a plague. K2368.3
• Enemy induced to give up siege by making it look as if the besieged have got reinforcement. K2368.4
• Military strategy – miscellaneous. K2369
• Marauder pretends beggary that king will underestimate his power. K2369.1
• Division of warriors hidden in pit on battlefield. Emerge during battle. K2369.2
• Largest part of fleet does not emerge until late in battle. K2369.2.1
• Treacherous king participates in battle only when he sees who is likely to win. K2369.2.2
• Treacherous ruler of city under siege sends sons to deliver city to enemy. K2369.3
• Postponing of payment asked in order to get time to gather reinforcements. K2369.4
• Besiegers drowned by diversion of river. K2369.5
• Military strategy: city won by turning river from its course through city. Enemy soldiers march through empty bed into city. K2369.6
• Shammed discussing of peace while getting reinforcements. K2369.7
• Cauldron containing lighted torch brought into enemy's camp ostensibly to be used for serving food: torch uncovered as signal for attack. K2369.8
• Fairy mist mistaken for smoke of enemy's burning ships. K2369.9
• Hero causes confusion in enemy camp in dead of night: army men fall upon one another, convinced the enemy has infiltrated their camp. K2369.11
• Poisoned food sent to enemy camp. K2369.12
• Enemy leaders invited to banquet and poisoned. (Cf. K871.1.) K2369.12.1
• Brambles heaped in ford to halt enemies. K2369.13
• Miscellaneous deceptions. K2370
• Deceiving the higher powers (God, the saints, the gods, fate). K2371
• Heaven entered by a trick. K2371.1
• Heaven entered by trick: permission to pick up cap. Trickster throws a cap or leather apron inside the gate. K2371.1.1
• Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
• Heaven entered by trick: "wishing sack" thrown in. Trickster wishes himself in the sack. K2371.1.3
• Heaven entered by trick: sitting on Peter's chair. K2371.1.4
• Heaven entered by trick: slipping in along with holy person. K2371.1.5
• Heaven entered by trick: angel tricked by drink into telling woman how to enter. K2371.1.6
• Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate. K2371.2
• Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." K2371.3
• Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.) K2371.4
• Enemies reconciled by gifts which the one's son tells are sent from the other. K2373
• The returned box on the ears. At table each gives his neighbor a box on the ears. The soldier is to give it to the king, but he returns it to the courtier from whom he has received it. K2376
• Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it. K2377
• Temporary advantage gained by pretending to yield in a combat. K2378
• Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes. K2378.1
• Warrior consents to flee for the sake of future victory. K2378.2
• Enemies deceived through shammed flight. K2378.3
• Ammunition saved till enemy has used his. K2378.4
• Hero sleeps during the first part of battle and emerges only later. K2378.5
• Ruler diverts attention from misgovernment by beginning a war. K2381
• One animal injures another by deception. K2382
• Bird plucks another bird's feathers out. K2382.1
• Dwarf-deer pastes other animal's eyes shut and pretends that hunters are coming. K2382.2
• Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move. K2383
• Man tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his mother. K2384
• Demon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilled. K2385
• Attempt to kill by throwing knife. K2388