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

• Why animals are deceptive. A2525
• Why hare is deceptive. A2525.1
• Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
• Lender repays borrower for deceptive loan. J1556
• Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
• Deceptive invitation to feast. J1577
• Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
• Deceptive shinny match. K23
• Deceptive contest in chopping. K44
• Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
• Deceptive contest in fasting. K53
• Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
• Deceptive contest in carrying a horse. The ogre carries it on his back and soon tires; the man carries it between his legs (rides). K72
• Deceptive contest in squeezing hands. The man has an iron glove on. K73
• Deceptive contest in pulling fingers. The man has an iron finger. K74
• Deceptive eating contest. K81
• Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.) K81.1
• Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
• Deceptive eating contest: inexhaustible food. Hero can produce unlimited food which opponents must eat. K81.3
• Deceptive drinking contest. K82
• Deceptive drinking contest: hole for water. The trickster lets the water run out through a hole; the dupe drinks himself to death. (Cf. K81.1.) K82.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.) K82.2
• Deceptive contest in drinking whisky. The man drinks water, the devil is given vinegar. K82.3
• Deceptive drinking contest: pretended swallowing. One bullock keeps mouth in water. Other drinks self to death. K82.4
• Deceptive scratching contest. K83
• Deceptive vocal contests. K84
• Deceptive laughing contest. K87
• Deceptive bargains. K100
• Deceptive horse-sale. K134
• Deceptive exchange: useless for magic object. K140.1
• Deceptive partnership between man and ogre. K170.1
• Deceptive division of profits. K171
• Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. Of root crops the ogre (stupid animal) chooses the tops; of other crops the roots. (Cf. J242.8.) K171.1
• Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
• Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive. K171.3
• Deceptive sacrifice of nuts and dates. Trickster sacrifices only the shells of the nuts and the inside of the dates. K171.3.1
• Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe. K171.4
• Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig. K171.5
• Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good. K171.7
• Deceptive division of sheep. Evil chooses lambs, leaving milk to Good. Lambs drink up all milk. K171.7.2
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Deceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack made. K174
• Deceptive bargain: as much grain as will go in a rope. Trickster encloses whole crop. K174.1
• Deceptive bargain: three wishes. The ogre is to fulfill three wishes of the peasant. The latter wishes for all the tobacco and brandy in the world and then some more brandy in addition. The devil must admit failure. K175
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
• Deceptive bargain: felling the tree. The ogre and the trickster agree to fell a large tree. The trickster purposely dulls his axe on a stone and then asks the ogre to exchange. Rather than work with a dull axe, the ogre does all the work. K178
• Deceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacks. K181
• Deceptive bargain: an ox for five pennies. A woman who has been left the ox on condition that she give the proceeds to the poor offers it for five pennies, but it must be bought along with a cock at twelve florins. She gives the five pennies to the poor and keeps the twelve florins. K182
• Deceptive bargain: the ogre and the copper coins. Every time the copper coin is paid out, the ogre must make a new one. The man buys an extensive property and pays with a large number of copper coins. He threatens to buy another and the ogre goes back on his contract. K183
• Deceptive land purchase. (Dido.) K185
• Deceptive land purchase: ox-hide measure. As much land bought as can be surrounded by an ox-hide. The hide is cut into very small strips. K185.1
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as Vishnu can lie upon (or can step over in three steps). His worshippers claim for him the whole earth. K185.2
• Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as a shawl will cover. An immense shawl prepared. K185.4
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be covered by saint's hood. Only by snatching up hood does seller prevent it from covering whole territory. K185.4.1
• Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by a race. One man has supernatural speed. K185.5
• Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by throwing object (axe, spear). Thrower has extraordinary strength. K185.6
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be surrounded in a certain time. K185.7
• Deceptive land purchase: king, as reward for help in winning battle, promises wounded chieftain as much land as his chariot can travel around; bribes charioteer to turn back whenever chieftain faints from loss of blood. K185.7.3
• Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be shadowed by a tree. Bought just before sunset. K185.10
• Deceptive land purchase: enough to raise certain plant. This is a rapidly spreading weed which overruns the country. K185.11
• Deceptive land purchase: saint's enemy promised as much land as he can see from certain point. Saint causes cloud to obstruct vision. K185.12
• Deceptive land bargain: saints agree that the one who casts his staff far enough to reach distant island shall be owner of land. Staff of one contestant transformed to spear (or dart) and so alone reaches island. When saint touches weapon, it becomes staff again. K185.13
• Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crooked. K186
• Deceptive bargain based on an unusual name. K193
• Other deceptive bargains. K199
• Deceptive bargain: as much gold in reward as sticks to poet's hair when poured over him: he smears it with tar. K199.1
• Reward for accomplishment of task deceptively withheld. K231.2
• Deceptive respite in payment obtained. K238
• Other deceptive bargains. K250
• Deceptive damage claims. K251
• Deceptive sale of another as slave. K252.1
• Deceptive wages. K256
• Deceptive wages: as much rice as will go on a leaf. Lotus leaf used. K256.1
• Deceptive wages: two grains and land to plant them on. Grain multiplies and takes up all of dupe's land. K256.2
• Deceptive wager. K264
• Deceptive wager: whose horse will jump highest. The trickster has his worthless horse jump out the window. The duke will not let his run the risk. K264.1
• Deceptive wager: cat to carry lantern into room. (Has been specially trained.) K264.2
• Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute. K528
• Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game. K619.3
• Other deceptive captures. K770
• Fatal deceptive game. K850
• Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death. K851
• Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. K852
• Deceptive game: bear cubs sway in tree. K855.1
• Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) K857
• Deceptive sword-game: brother killed. K867.1
• Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves. K868
• Fatal deceptive game – miscellaneous. K869
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Deceptive hide and seek game. Hide and seek game proposed by seven demons so as to kill hero. K869.2
• Deceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lion. K869.3
• Deceptive agreement to kill wives (children). Trickster shams the murder; dupe kills his. K944
• Lover put off by deceptive respite. K1227
• Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. K1354.2.3
• Deceptive report of birth of heir. Queen tells king anxious for an heir that she is to give birth to a son, but that ill will befall the son if king looks upon him. K1847.1.1
• Deceptive nocturnal noise. Wood-spirits imitate falling of trees, etc. K1887.2