34 motifs match “cheated”  ·  back to the chapters

• Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. A2275.4.1
• Why the guinea fowl has red feet. Cheated and could not stand the ordeal of hot oil poured on his feet. A2375.2.10
• Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. E234.1
• The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
• Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
• A farmer who trades horses with the devil is cheated. G303.25.12
• The cheater cheated. J1510
• The bear mistaken for a saint. The godless man is cheated and attacks a bear thinking it is a saint, and barely escapes with his life. J1762.2.1
• Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
• Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. J2431.1
• Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. K171.0.1
• Devil cheated of his promised soul. The man saves it through deceit. K210
• Devil cheated by imposing an impossible task. K211
• Devil is cheated by giving him task: counting the letters in the church Bible. He is unable to read the holy words. K211.1
• Devil cheated by being frightened. K212
• Devil cheated by pretended hanging. The man has promised himself to the devil in return for money. He stuffs his clothes with straw and hangs them up. The devil thinks the man has hanged himself and is satisfied. K215
• Devil cheated by religious or magic means. Missouri French: Carrière. K218
• Devil cheated by having priest draw a sacred circle about the intended victim. K218.1
• Devil cheated of his victim by boy having a bible under his arm. K218.2
• Devil cheated when his victim becomes a priest. K218.3
• Devil cheated of promised soul by intervention of Virgin Mary. K218.4
• Devil cheated of his promised soul by making the intended victim drunk. The devil may punish the drunk man's body but has no power over his soul. K219.1
• Devil cheated of his promised soul when the victim sells his to a comrade. The latter says, "The devil can take only one soul from each person. I bought the soul so that when he comes I can give him one and still save my own." K219.2
• Two cheats exchange articles as genuine and both find themselves cheated. (Cf. K306.) K421.3
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Robber induced to give respite and come to man's office to get promised larger sum. Cheated. K439.7
• The other man to pay the bill. Three feast at an inn and each makes the host believe that one of the others will pay. None has money and the host is cheated. K455.4
• False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. K484.3
• Death cheated by moving bed. The man who has chosen Death as his godfather has his bed turned around when he sees Death standing at the foot of his bed. He thus escapes death. K557
• After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
• Partnership of Honesty and Fraud: Fraud loses. Fraud has cheated his partner, Honesty. They hire a housekeeper. Fraud is to have use of her right side, Honesty of her left. The left side is of little use. Fraud falls in love with her and pays Honesty double all his losses to relinquish his rights. K1635
• Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. L144.1
• Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody). L363
• Devil cheated at card playing. N4.0.1