Deceptions

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• Owl invites cricket to share his nectar. Kills him. K815.5
• Snake promises to do no harm to frog. Kills him. K815.6
• Cat acts as judge between sparrow and hare; eats them both. K815.7
• Hawk persuades doves to elect him their king. Kills them. K815.8
• Tiger flatters cow into showing that she has few teeth. Kills her. K815.9
• Weasel induces cuckoo to tell him that it cries at night when asleep. Hence weasels can kill cuckoos. K815.10
• Wounded wolf persuades lamb to bring him a drink, adding that he will get his own food. K815.11
• Boat lured to land with kind words and wrecked in order to take vengeance on the men. K815.12
• Cat makes truce with mice. When they have become friendly, he eats them. K815.13
• Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) K815.14
• Fish, lured by kind words, are killed by old man. K815.14.1
• Cat lures young foxes from den with music. Kills them. K815.15
• Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. K815.16
• King of fishes eats his subjects as they pay him their respects day and night. K815.17
• Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. K815.18
• Victim told to stand ready by tree to catch bee nest as it falls; trickster throws club at him instead. K815.19
• Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed. K816
• Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed. K818
• Man killed with sword, which he himself is tricked into passing to captured enemy. K818.1
• Giantess killed with the spear she herself has given hero. K818.2
• Victim's arrows made harmless. K818.3
• Deception by hiding weapons. K818.4
• Fairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killed. K821
• Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him. K822
• Sham doctor kills his patients. K824
• Sham doctor kills ogre (giant). K824.1
• Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). K825
• Cormorant's tongue pulled out by putting louse on it. K825.1
• Victim persuaded to hold out tongue: bitten off. K825.1.1
• Elephant killed by cutting off trunk which is poked into cave after victims. K825.2
• Man causes victim to bite his tongue off. K825.3
• Man persuaded to hold out hand for alleged letter from king. Hand cut off. K825.4
• Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them. K826
• Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seized. K827
• Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) K827.1
• Cannibals persuaded to take snuff: killed. K827.2
• Dupe persuaded to sing (dance) on trickster's body. When he approaches the mouth he is killed. K827.3
• Fox shams death and catches crows that come to feed on him. K827.4
• Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. K827.5
• Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal. K828
• Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep. K828.1
• Fox feigning illness admitted to hen-roost and kills the hens. K828.2
• Wolf tries to cheat ewe by posing as ram. K828.3
• Victim killed while being bathed. K831
• Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. K831.1
• Trickster sends dupe to well for drink of water; pushes him in. K831.1.1
• Monkey killed by girls who pretend to wash its buttocks. K831.2
• Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed. K832
• Jealous wife tells sister to look below: pushes her over cliff. K832.1
• Victim persuaded to look into well or pond: pushed in. K832.1.1
• Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. K832.2
• Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
• Man gets bear off guard by telling her to listen for hunters: kills her. K832.4
• Victim persuaded to look for certain tree: pushed over cliff. K832.5
• Man asked to look at birds: pulled into pool. K832.6
• Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed. K833
• Victim killed while asleep in killer's house. K834
• Dupe tricked into sleeping. Killed. K834.1
• Dragon deceived into listening to tale: hero cuts off its head. K835
• Ferocious boar fed and put to sleep by rubbing. Killed. (Aper.) K836
• Victim killed while load is being taken from his back. K837
• Victim lured into trough: is pounded up with poisoned fish. K838
• Fatal deception into trickster's power – miscellaneous. K839
• Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard. K839.1
• Victim lured into approach by false token. K839.2
• Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard. K839.3
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• Camel lures wolf into looking at the writing on his breast. Crushes wolf. K839.5
• Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight. K839.6
• Deception into fatal substitution. K840
• Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. K841
• Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. Report that man executed just then will be king in heaven. K841.1
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) K842
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place suspended in air. K842.1
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in pit. K842.2
• Tied animal persuades another to take his place. K842.3
• Raja substitutes himself for condemned man. Made to believe that this will take him to heaven. K842.4
• Dupe persuaded to be killed in order to go to heaven. K843
• Dupes persuaded to be burned, thinking they will be sent back with gifts. K843.1
• Dupe persuaded to play for wedding party. Takes place of trickster, who sets fire and burns him up. K844
• Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.) K845
• Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place. K846
• Fatal deceptive game. K850
• Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death. K851
• Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. K852
• Fatal game: drowning. K853
• Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. K854
• Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. K855
• Deceptive game: bear cubs sway in tree. K855.1
• Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. K856
• Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) K857
• Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. K858
• Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. K861
• Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) K863
• Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear. K863.1
• Fatal apple-throwing game. K864
• Fatal game: putting heads in notches. K865
• Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. K866
• Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. K867
• Deceptive sword-game: brother killed. K867.1
• Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves. K868
• Fatal deceptive game – miscellaneous. K869
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Deceptive hide and seek game. Hide and seek game proposed by seven demons so as to kill hero. K869.2
• Deceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lion. K869.3
• Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. K869.4
• Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). K870
• Fatal intoxication. K871
• Army intoxicated and overcome. K871.1
• Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) K871.2
• Judith and Holofernes: girl from enemy camp chosen to sleep with intoxicated general kills him in bed. K872
• Girl kills man sleeping with her. K872.1
• Fatal deception by giving narcotic. K873
• King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife. K873.1
• Groom murdered, while watchmen and bride are brought to sleep by music. K873.2
• Boy makes adversary insensible by substituting opium for half of tobacco in pipe. K873.3
• Drug introduced into half of fruit from enemy's fingernail where it has been hidden. K873.4
• Deception by pretended lousing. K874
• Ape pretends to louse heron, but plucks out his feathers. K874.1
• Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. K875
• Dupe tricked into killing himself. K890
• Poor man deceives rich man, plays tricks on him, causes his death. K890.1
• Dupe tricked into jumping to his death. K891
• Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself. K891.1
• Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. K891.2
• Monkey tricked into jumping in water and drowning self. Jackal hides in reeds which screen water. K891.3
• Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved. K891.4
• Dupe induced to jump over precipice. K891.5
• Animals (giants) enticed over precipice. K891.5.1
• Dupe crowded over precipice. K891.5.2
• Dupes persuaded to be thrown over precipice. (Cf. K842.) K891.5.3
• Dupes deceived into falling over precipice. K891.5.4
• Dupe crowded into the water: drowns. K892
• Dupe forced on to thin ice: drowns himself. K893
• Man leads pursuers to edge of thin ice, swerves suddenly; they fall through the ice. K893.1
• Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall. K895
• Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes. K896
• Beaver and porcupine trick each other. Beaver carries porcupine and abandons him in the center of a lake. Porcupine causes the lake to freeze and escapes. He then carries beaver and abandons him in the top of a tree. K896.1
• Dupe tricked on to slippery road lined with knives. He kills himself. K897
• Snake killed by putting knives in animal he is swallowing. K897.1
• Animal killed by axes (knives) left in tree. K897.2
• Giant impales self on javelin fugitive holds behind himself. K897.2.1
• Robbers make stairs slippery so that bathing prince falls. K897.3
• Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned. K898
• Murder by strategy. K910
• Feigning death to kill enemy. K911
• Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body. K911.1
• Man feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieve. K911.2
• Sleep feigned to kill enemy. K911.3
• Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave. K911.4
• Feigning deafness to lure enemy close and to kill him. K911.5
• Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house. K912
• Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter house. K912.0.1
• Robbers' (giants') hands cut off as they enter house. K912.0.2
• Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out. K912.1
• Men lured into serpent pit one by one and killed. K912.2
• Ogre suitor persuaded by woman to bury her murdered lover: she cuts off his head. K912.3
• Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast. K913
• Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder. K913.1
• Murder from ambush. K914
• Bear killed from ambush as he leaves his cave. K914.1
• Rock hurled down hill slays enemy passing below. K914.2
• Slaying under cover of darkness. K914.3
• Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse. K916
• Peacock helper dances before enemy army of hero; flame of fire from her tail burns them all to ashes. K916.1
• Treacherous murder during hunt. K917
• Man murdered while praying. K918
• Fox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the water. K921
• Artificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killed. K922
• Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes. K923
• Person cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.) K924
• Victim pushed into fire. K925
• Hero entices enemies into building and sets fire to it. K925.1
• Victim pushed into water. K926
• Slaughter of animals by stampede. K927
• Murder through transformation. K928
• Serpent transforms self to staff, is picked up and bites enemy. K928.1
• Murder by strategy – miscellaneous. K929
• Murder by leaving poisoned wine. K929.1
• One-eyed doe outwitted by approaching from her blind side. Accustomed to feed on a cliff with her sound eye next the land. K929.2
• Ruler promises minister that he will not kill him "on any day of his life." Dispels his suspicions. Has him killed at night. K929.3
• Pretended flight draws victims. K929.4
• Murder by slipping gold coins into meat customarily demanded by enemy. K929.5
• Murder by feigned quarrel. Peacemaker killed. K929.6
• Men deceived into killing each other. K929.7
• Hero, who has eloped with affianced wife of king, induced to return to court and treacherously slain during enforced absence of his sureties at drinking bouts. K929.8
• Murder by pushing off cliff. K929.9
• Old wife provokes sparrow to speak and therefore drop new wife whom he is carrying in his beak. K929.10
• Concealed weapons in food basket sent king: kills servant who opens it. K929.11
• False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. K929.12
• Hare causes pursuing she-bear to stick between trees and kills her. K929.13
• Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. K930
• Sham nurse kills enemy's children. K931
• Trickster employed to educate baby crocodiles: he eats them instead. K931.1
• Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird. K932
• Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger. K933
• Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted. K934
• Deception into killing own family or animals. K940
• Man betrayed into eating his own children. K940.1
• Man betrayed into eating his own children and setting the village on fire. (Cf. K941.2, K944.) K940.1.1