62 motifs match “deceived”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why hyena has short left hind foot. Deceived into jumping by jackal. (Cf. A2284.6.) A2375.2.5
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 on ship on wheels after having deceived the captor into laying away sword and helm to receive pretended gift. K611.3
• Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare. K714.9
• Dragon deceived into listening to tale: hero cuts off its head. K835
• Dupes deceived into falling over precipice. K891.5.4
• Men deceived into killing each other. K929.7
• 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
• 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
• Cuckold. Husband deceived by adulterous wife. K1501
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• 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
• Enemy deceived into overestimating opponents: retreat. (Cf. K548.) K2368
• Enemies deceived through shammed flight. K2378.3
• Youngest daughter suspects impostor. Elder have been deceived. L62
• Youngest daughter avoids seducer. Elder sisters have been deceived. L63
• Cuckold loses luck. A man's wife is deceived in order that he may lose in gambling. N6.2
• Wager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exempt. N67