Deceptions

3,871 motifs · page 8 of 20

• Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer. K646
• Confederate cuts rope almost in two so that prisoner breaks it and flees. K647
• Bird's call attracts attention of pursuer so that trickster escapes. K648
• Escape by help of confederate – miscellaneous. K649
• Confederate hides fugitive. K649.1
• One animal swallows another to save him from pursuer. K649.1.1
• Tiger-mother hides concealed guests in jar. K649.1.2
• Confederate sits on hero and saves him. K649.1.3
• Rescuer disguised as officer gains custody of prisoner. K649.2
• Boys scolded in order to conceal their identity. K649.3
• Son mentioned as daughter in order to save him from enemy's pursuit. K649.4
• Boys warned by dogs' names to escape. K649.5
• Sons warned by talk to oaks to hide. K649.6
• Confederate in disguise helps man escape. K649.7
• Confederate in disguise as beggar helps to escape. K649.7.1
• Helper dressed in bear's skin helps to escape. K649.7.2
• Confederate in disguise as "troll" frightens king's men, while his daughter helps prisoner to escape. (Cf. F455.) K649.7.3
• Confederate saves fugitive by shammed pursuit. K649.8
• Confederate causes confusion so that prisoner can escape. K649.9
• Prisoner escapes by means of wolf which he lures near by smearing honey on the feet. K649.10
• Escape by cutting fetters on stones, etc. K649.11
• Confederate persuades captor to throw away disguised trickster. K649.12
• Other means of escape. K650
• Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other. K651
• Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back. K652
• Prisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. Escapes. K655
• Captors lured into drowning selves. K656
• Exaggerated tales about escapes. K657
• Escape from suspicion of crime. K661
• Fool's brothers substitute a goat for the body of the man he has killed: thus save him. K661.1
• Statue mourned and buried in order to account for murdered person. K661.2
• Insect in nose of murdered person simulates snoring and allays suspicion. K661.3
• Waxen statue left instead of abducted queen. K661.4
• Captive throws his hat to lions who fight over it while he escapes. K671
• Captive throws his shoe at serpent who chokes while he escapes. K672
• Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) K675
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Trickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapes. K676
• Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope. K677
• Hero hides in treasure box and thus circumvents plot to leave him below when companions pull up box. K677.1
• Cutting rope to kill ogre who is climbing the rope to reach his victim. K678
• Small animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.) K683
• Escape by catching hold of limbs of tree while passing under it. K685
• Escape by announcing great catastrophe (end of world or the like). K686
• Birds escape death by flying away with net. K687
• Capture by deception. K700
• Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. K710
• Deception into entering bag. K711
• Birds enticed into bag. K711.0.1
• Deception into magic bag which closes on prisoner. K711.1
• Leopard persuaded to enter bag in order to see trickster perform marvel. K711.2
• Miser induced to thrust his head into bag; noose pulled by thief afterwards. K711.2.1
• Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned. K711.3
• Witch tells boy to pass down some of fruit from tree, catches hold of him and puts him in her sack when he bends down. K711.4
• Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered. K713
• Deception into allowing oneself to be tied. K713.1
• Animal allows himself to be tied so as to avoid being carried off by storm. K713.1.1
• Animal allows himself to be tied to another for safety. Carried to his death. (Cf. J2132.6.) K713.1.2
• Animal persuaded to be tied by promise of food. K713.1.3
• Animal persuaded to be tied through curiosity to learn secret names. K713.1.4
• Ogre allows self to be tied so as to learn magic. K713.1.5
• Animal allows self to be tied so as to learn music. K713.1.6
• Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
• Women bind warrior's hair to wall of hostel while he sleeps. K713.1.8
• Deception into putting on a collar. K713.2
• Hare persuades wolf and fox to put their heads in loops on rope and thus strangles them to death. K713.3
• Deception into entering box (or prison). K714
• Victim tricked into prison and kept there. K714.1
• Trickster persuades policeman to take his place in the stocks. Then tricks policeman's wife into giving him jewels. K714.1.1
• Victim tricked into entering box. K714.2
• Victim tricked into jumping in a box by making him think he is going to heaven. (Cf. K842.) K714.2.1
• Tiger enticed into coffin. K714.2.2
• Dupe tricked into entering hollow tree. K714.3
• Victim tricked into entering basket. K714.4
• Woman persuaded to hide head in jug: she is caught. K714.5
• Animal lured into lion's den. K714.6
• Victim lured into following deer sent by demon to cave. Dies of suffocation. K714.7
• Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins). K714.8
• Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare. K714.9
• Fox deceives lion into entering pit. K714.9.1
• Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner. K715
• Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle. K717
• Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized. K721
• Dupe persuaded to close eyes and open mouth; then hot stones are thrown down throat. K721.1
• Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. K722
• Dragon enticed into pot while in its child-form, boiled, so it can see "courage". K722.1
• Dupe induced to waste his bullets, then seized. K724
• Dupe lured away from protection of friends: captured. K725
• Dupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.) K726
• Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed. K728
• Victim trapped. K730
• Animal trapped through curiosity as to what the trap is. K730.1
• Claim that a trap is a prayer house. K730.1.1
• Frog causes deer to dance into snare. K730.2
• Leopard traps lion by having two doors to cave, one large, one small. Lion enters large entrance and leopard leaves by small and attacks back of lion. K730.3
• Tortoise leads elephant down wrong trail into trap. K730.4
• Birds led into trap by promise of a feast. K730.5
• Wildboar captured in church. K731
• Intruder captured in chimney. Burned. K732
• Capture in pitfall. (Cf. B361.) K735
• Mats over holes as pitfall. K735.1
• Capture in trap seat. K735.2
• Knight captured in pitfall while his horse escapes. K735.3
• Capture in trap bed: victim dropped into dungeon. K735.4
• Pit placed under a bed. K735.4.1
• Dupe tricked into well: left there. K735.5
• Tiger enticed into pit by being tempted to leap after boar-leader. K735.6
• Snapping door. Traps victims. K736
• Capture by closing entrance to victim's home. K737
• Dupe lured into hole and entrance closed. K737.1
• Tiger persuaded to walk into house: locked in. K737.2
• Capture by tarbaby. An image covered with tar (or other adhesive substance) captures the intruder who addresses it and finally strikes it so that he sticks to it. K741
• Capture by tarring back of a horse. K741.1
• Capture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get loose. K742
• Victim captured in a noose. K743
• Victim burned in building. K745
• Capture by decoy. K750
• Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.) K751
• Capture by hiding in animal carcass. Animal who comes to eat of carcass caught. K751.1
• Man plays dead and hides in money chest: catches thief. K751.2
• Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.) K752
• Capture by hiding in disguised objects. K753
• Capture by hiding in disguised ship. K753.1
• Capture by hiding in artificial animal. K754
• Trojan wooden horse. Permits capture of the city by concealing soldiers. K754.1
• Capture by hiding in artificial elephant. K754.2
• Capture by hiding in artificial bird. K754.3
• Capture by masking as another. K755
• Abduction by fraudulently giving signal of husband's return. (Cf. K1354.3.2.) K755.1
• Capture by imitation of animal's voice. K756
• Birds captured by imitating their song. K756.1
• Attempted capture by causing animal to make noise. K756.2
• Attempted capture by causing owner's pig to squeal at night. K756.2.1
• Attempted capture by ringing cowbell to sound as if cow has wandered far away. (Cf. K341.7.) K756.2.2
• Bird catches fishes by imitating voice of friend. K756.3
• Capture by feigning illness. (Cf. K751.) K757
• Capture by hiding in baskets of food. K758
• Capture by putting on the clothes of slain enemy. K761
• Stranger asks woman for fire: abducts her. K762
• Capture by hiding in hollow tree. K763
• Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child. K764
• Hare carries disguised lion covered with honey, thus luring animals into trap. K767
• Other deceptive captures. K770
• Unicorn tricked into running horn into tree. K771
• Lioness enticed into putting head into wall to pursue hare who escapes through hole. Gets stuck. K771.1
• Victim enticed into dancing: captured. K772
• Crabs induced to take moonlight walks: eaten. K772.1
• Deception by having victim pick trickster's teeth. K773
• Capture by sight of women's breasts. Women with uncovered breasts meet hero. He averts his face and is captured. K774
• Sight of women's breasts used to appease enemies. K774.1
• Sight of unclothed women calms rage of youthful hero. K774.2
• Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. K775
• Capture by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K775.1
• Capture by intoxication (or narcotic). K776
• Capture with aid of sleep-bringing music. K776.1
• Fortress captured as harper puts garrison to sleep with music while besiegers place fingers in ears. K776.1.1
• Man is made drunk and left in temple at mercy of demons. K776.2
• Capture of castle by pretending to surrender and entering. K777
• Capture through the wiles of a woman. (Cf. K774.) K778
• Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. K778.1
• Amazonian woman disguised as leper seduces and binds enemies one by one. K778.2
• Capture by luring to courtesan's house. K778.3
• Attack made on groom after he has been invited to female apartments to have meal with bride. K778.4
• Adulteress lures husband so as to have him killed. K778.5
• Castle captured with assistance of owner's daughter. She loves the attacker. (Cf. K811.1.1, K2340.) K781
• Capture by lying in wait in enemy's haunt. K782
• Capture by blinding. K783
• Enemy blinded with chili powder and overpowered. K783.1
• In duel with long poles the ogre is forced into the pig-sty. K785
• Fairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole). K786
• Maiden sent to rendezvous with lover, who is captured. K787
• Woman lured into the forest and captured. K788
• Princess lured into the forest by harp-playing boy or thief. K788.1
• Killing or maiming by deception. K800
• Fatal deception into trickster's power. K810
• Victim lured into house and killed. K811
• Animal enticed into palace after it had long fed out of trickster's hand. K811.0.1
• Enemies invited to banquet and killed. (Cf. K871.2.) K811.1
• With help of captor's daughter, prisoners slay many of his soldiers at a banquet. (Cf. K781.) K811.1.1
• Enemies invited to feast and poisoned. K811.1.2
• Jackals persuaded to enter pit to escape coming storm. Killed. K811.2
• Cruel king lured to enemy's power by invitation to false execution. He comes to see a girl die and is killed himself. K811.3
• Hostile visitors lured into iron house concealed by wooden walls. Hosts set fire to house. K811.4
• Pretended friend puts food on far side of hidden ditch, victim falls in and is killed. K811.5
• Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place). K812
• Dupe's house set afire so that he is burned in trying to put out fire. K812.1
• Boy teaches giants how to lay a carpet of dried grass and naphtha over the hard ground floor of their cave, sets fire to it and thus suffocates them. K812.1.1
• Men lured to their death when their fields are set on fire. K812.2
• Monkey lures tiger into tree-top and sets fire to it. K812.3
• Owner burns intruder in house. K812.4
• Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him. K813
• Whimbrel sends his adulterous mate to meet him in cave. He has arranged with lion to be there to eat her. K813.1
• Hare tricks civet cat into being eaten by lion. K813.2
• Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed. K814
• Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed. K815
• Fox persuades cock to come down and talk to him. Kills him. K815.1
• Fox tries to persuade cock to come down and talk to him. Cock calls dog and fox flees. K815.1.1
• Spider invites wasp (fly) to rest on her "white curtain". Eats her. K815.2
• Dogs listen to wolves' hypocritical words. Are killed. K815.3
• Cat invites hens to a feast and kills them. K815.4