119 motifs match “deceive” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Demon (opposed to God) allowed to earth four times a year (but must let people know who he is and not deceive them). A106.2.1.2
• Moon deceives sun. A753.3.1
• Why hyena has short left hind foot. Deceived into jumping by jackal. (Cf. A2284.6.) A2375.2.5
• Serpent as deceiver in paradise. B176.1.1
• Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her. D616
• Enemy's army deceived by illusion produced by saint. D2163.7
• Resuscitation: ghosts deceived so that they cannot find way back to grave. E141
• Ghost deceived. E432
• Haunting ghost deceived so that he cannot find road to return. E432.1
• Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
• Changeling deceived into betraying his age. F321.1.1
• Demons assume human forms in order to deceive. F402.1.4
• Demon takes on form of God to deceive faithful. F402.1.4.1
• Spirits deceived by drum-beats and hoodwinkings. F405.3
• Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. G303.16.19.4.1
• Ogre deceived into self-injury. G520
• Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. G524
• Ogre deceived into hanging himself. G524.1
• Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
• Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he smells human blood. G532
• Ogre deceived into releasing prisoner. G560
• Ogre deceived by throwing burning oil instead of spittle on him. G572.1
• Ogre deceived by showing sharp knife or sword for nose or tongue. G572.2
• Contest in lifelike painting: mare and curtain. First artist paints a mare so realistic as to deceive a stallion. Second paints a curtain which deceives the first artist. H504.1.2
• Contest in lifelike painting: grapes and curtain. First artist paints a bunch of grapes so realistically that it attracts the birds. The second artist paints a curtain which deceives the first artist. He wins. H504.1.3
• Contest in enduring cold: frost and the hare. Hare tries to deceive frost by lying on frozen snow and saying, "Oh, how warm!" H1541.1
• Weasel paints self to deceive mice. Detected. J951.4
• Man deceived by his hireling. J1114.1
• Guilty person deceived into gesture (act) which admits guilt. J1141.1
• Man breaks promise to sleep chastely with woman. Decision: deceived fiance is to sleep with seducer's wife, if he ever marries. J1174.2.1
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• Skeleton has all his ribs. Indian examines skeleton of man at museum, finds there is no rib missing, concludes that ministers have deceived him in telling him the story of Adam. J1262.8
• The cynic and the deceiver. When the deceiver calls him wicked, he says, "I am glad that you are my enemy; for you do good to your enemies and evil to your friends." J1442.10
• Ox bought; buyer also claims load of wood attached. Later deceived man disguises and sells sharper another ox for "handful of coppers." He is allowed by court to claim the hand as well. J1511.17
• Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) J1517
• Servant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eat. J2064
• Burial in old grave to deceive angel. Fool thinks that the angel who comes to question him will pass him by since he has apparently been dead a long time. J2212.2
• God cheats devil at mowing. God mows with a chisel, the devil with a scythe. God deceives devil into changing scythe for chisel. K42.2.1
• Dog alleged to chase hare and bring it to hunter's home. Dupe deceived. K135.1.2
• Sale of dog supposed to excrete sweet dung: dupe deceived. K135.1.3
• Horse withheld as sacrifice to a saint refuses to move. The deceiver takes the horse to the church planning to remove him again, but the horse will not stir until a money equivalent has been paid. K231.3.4
• Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself. K333.1
• Innkeeper deceived into going under the floor of the granary; meantime robbed. K343.0.1
• Theft by posing as master of the house and learning where goods are hidden. Wife deceived in the dark. K362.4
• Person being robbed deceives robbers and calls help. (Cf. K551.5.) K432
• Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1
• Persons deceived into eating meat in Lent, the meat being disguised as butter. (Cf. K499.2.1, K499.2.2.) K498
• Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. K533.1
• Captors deceived into believing captive is planning to stay with them: vigilance relaxed. Captured general orders heavy boxes taken into the temple. These are thought to be gold and it is concluded that he will not try to leave. He escapes. K536
• Enemy in ambush (or disguise) deceived into declaring himself. K607
• Sham-dead man deceived into making gesture. Obeys suggestion as to how dead man should act and betrays himself. K607.3
• Sham-dead deceived into moving by absurd action. K607.3.2
• Escape by pretended lousing. Captive pretends to louse the captor but deceives him by cracking berries in the teeth (or the like). K611.1
• Escape on ship on wheels after having deceived the captor into laying away sword and helm to receive pretended gift. K611.3
• Man in devils' power makes them believe he will return and is permitted to leave. Deceives them. K611.4
• Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare. K714.9
• Fox deceives lion into entering pit. K714.9.1
• Dragon deceived into listening to tale: hero cuts off its head. K835
• Poor man deceives rich man, plays tricks on him, causes his death. K890.1
• Dupes deceived into falling over precipice. K891.5.4
• Men deceived into killing each other. K929.7
• Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger. K933
• Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil. K943
• Fool deceived into curing headache by removing his eyes. K1011.1
• The lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived. K1151
• Dupe deceived concerning the thunder; finally killed by it. The dupe has asked the trickster to tell him when it thunders. K1177
• Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. K1223
• King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid. K1223.5
• Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" K1228
• Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump. K1232
• Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. K1353
• Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real. K1371.1.1
• The unusual names. Assuming unusual names, the servant deceives the girl, her mother, and her father. K1399.2
• Trickster deceives dupe into killing his own children. K1464
• Cuckold. Husband deceived by adulterous wife. K1501
• Adulteress falls in mud at lover's door. She deceives her husband by saying that she must enter and clean her dress. K1524
• Adulteress tells her lover how she loves her husband. She thus deceives the spying husband under the bed. K1532.1
• The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
• Husband deceived as to noise made by hidden paramour. K1549.7
• Paramour sends prostitutes in disguise to take mistress to "convent". Husband is deceived by the ruse. K1592
• Deceiver falls into own trap. K1600
• Deceiver falls into his own trap (literally). Arranges a trap or pitfall but is himself caught. K1601
• Deceiver falls into his own trap – miscellaneous incidents. K1610
• Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. The hero and heroine change places in bed with the ogre's children and put on them their caps so that the ogre is deceived. K1611
• Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first. K1618
• Sons have servant impersonate dead father and falsify his will. Servant deceives them by favoring himself. K1628
• Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
• Ant-eater deceives jaguar by excrement-exchange. K1721.2
• Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate. K1843
• Wife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servant. K1843.2.2
• Husband deceives wife with substituted bedmate. K1844
• Husband has servant substitute in bed. Instructed not to deceive him while he is calling on mistress. Instructions are not followed. K1844.1.1
• Groom deceives bride with substituted bedmate and hides self in order to learn the secret she has promised to tell. K1844.3
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• Impotent husband deceives wife by having a substitute in virility test. K1848.1
• Younger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive father. K1855
• Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability. K1984
• 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
• Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover. K2213.3.3
• Queen deceives her husband as revenge for his killing of her lover and brother (Helgi.) K2213.14