29 motifs match “deceives”  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon deceives sun. A753.3.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Person being robbed deceives robbers and calls help. (Cf. K551.5.) K432
• Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. K533.1
• Escape by pretended lousing. Captive pretends to louse the captor but deceives him by cracking berries in the teeth (or the like). K611.1
• Man in devils' power makes them believe he will return and is permitted to leave. Deceives them. K611.4
• Fox deceives lion into entering pit. K714.9.1
• Poor man deceives rich man, plays tricks on him, causes his death. K890.1
• Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger. K933
• Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. K1223
• King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid. K1223.5
• 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
• 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
• Sons have servant impersonate dead father and falsify his will. Servant deceives them by favoring himself. K1628
• Ant-eater deceives jaguar by excrement-exchange. K1721.2
• Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate. K1843
• Husband deceives wife with substituted bedmate. K1844
• Groom deceives bride with substituted bedmate and hides self in order to learn the secret she has promised to tell. K1844.3
• Impotent husband deceives wife by having a substitute in virility test. K1848.1
• 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
• Rescuer impersonates captive and deceives blind guardian while captive escapes. R121.2
• Mortal deceives Angel of Death. (Cf. V233.) R185.1
• Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) R245