46 motifs match “confederate”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal as confederate of adulterous wife. B598
• Boar as confederate of adulterous wife. B598.1
• Deer as confederate of adulterous wife. B598.2
• Ghost as confederate of man. E379.4
• Hero's confederate slows down princess with his breath. Extraordinary blower blows against her so that she is retarded and loses race. H331.5.1.1.1
• Husband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his house. J2316
• Numskull as thief: tries to carry off grinding-stone when told by confederates to bring out heavy things. Told to bring shiny things; brings out looking glass. J2461.1.7.1
• Sham dead man brought in sack by confederate. Is killed by his intended victim. K311.1.1
• Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
• Owner's attention distracted by man fishing in street. Meanwhile the man's confederates rob the dupe. K341.11
• Thief steals pastries while confederate makes a purchase. K341.15.1
• Man stands on pillory to attract attention. Confederate picks pockets of men who come to jeer. K341.24
• Theft by confederate. K365
• Confederate allows self to be sold as slave. K365.1
• The thieving guests. Rent a room at an inn and empty the mattresses of feathers, take fire wood, etc. Throw goods out of the window where confederate picks it up. K365.2
• Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
• Thief presents alibi. Plays all night for dance while confederate commits actual theft. K411
• Disguised robber in night-lodging tries to pull up confederate on rope: princess discovers him and catches him. K434.2
• Unjust umpire as trickster's confederate. (Cf. K455.7.) K451
• Unjust umpire decides a religious dispute. His confederate thus wins an absurd wager. K451.1
• The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
• Concealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealed. K451.3
• Trickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond. K451.4
• Confederate answers for corpse. Man poses as returned heir to dead man; pretends to address corpse for identification. K451.5
• Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. K455.7
• The stolen meat handed about. The thief hands it to his confederate. He says, "I haven't it." The confederate says, "I didn't steal it." K475.1
• Escape by help of confederate. K640
• Confederate sings and delays pursuers so that fugitive escapes. K643
• Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer. K646
• Confederate cuts rope almost in two so that prisoner breaks it and flees. K647
• Escape by help of confederate – miscellaneous. K649
• Confederate hides fugitive. K649.1
• Confederate sits on hero and saves him. K649.1.3
• Confederate in disguise helps man escape. K649.7
• Confederate in disguise as beggar helps to escape. K649.7.1
• 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
• Confederate persuades captor to throw away disguised trickster. K649.12
• Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him. K822
• Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
• Spying parent jolted in basket. A lover is let down into a girl's room at night in a basket. The spying parent stumbles into the basket and is jolted about by the lover's confederate. The parent thinks the devil has got him and leaves the lovers in peace. K1663
• Sham wise man (girl's confederate) interprets pretended dream for girl. Insists she be allowed to marry man of her own choice. K1956.6
• Sham magician promises to induce love by magic. Dupe is frightened (to death, robbed, or otherwise discomfited) by magician or confederate. K1963.2
• Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money. K2054
• Maidservant's confederate feigns coming out of woman's bedroom. K2112.2.3