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• Why Chapperbands coin false money for a living. A1689.8
• Horse refuses to carry one who speaks falsehood. B133.4
• Horse advises hero not to wash in water (as his false wife told him to) or his eyes will pop out. B521.1.1
• Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. B522.1
• Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god. C51.6
• Tabu: false and profane swearing of oath. C94.2
• Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. D741
• Magic lamp indicates falsehood by lighting. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1316.2
• Magic goblet (cup) indicates truth or falsehood. (Cf. D1171.6.2.) D1316.6
• Magic sod indicates falsehood by turning grassy surface downward, truth by turning it upward. (Cf. D934.1.) D1316.7
• Magic collar indicates falsehood by squeezing throat (hand, foot), truth by falling to ground. (Cf. D1068.) D1316.8
• Three-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakes. D1971
• Hero wakened from magic sleep by wife who has purchased place in his bed from false bride. (Cf. D1971.) D1978.4
• Fairy banished for falsehood. F252.4.2
• Spirit delivers false message. F402.1.9
• Dwarfs emigrate because mortals are false. F451.9.1.2
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Devil as advocate of falsely condemned men. Carries off the judge. G303.22.11
• Recognition of false bride by inability to finish true bride's weaving. H35.3.1
• False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. H105.1.1
• Nature fruitless if false judgment is passed. H243
• Person magically disfigured when he speaks falsely. H244
• Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
• Oath of truth before magic lion. If oath is false perjurer is dismembered. H251.1.1
• Stone cannot be moved by one who speaks falsehood. H251.2.1
• Oath taken before image. If oath is false the image turns around (or changes color). H251.3.5
• Chain around neck tests truth. Tightens when wearer speaks falsehood. H251.3.6
• False judgment by judge causes fruit to fall. Just judgment by judge causes fruit to be perfect. H251.3.10
• Magic cup as test of truth and falsehood. H251.3.13
• If oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.) H252.3
• Oath taken on boy's head: boy to die if false. H252.4
• Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. H252.4.2
• Valley from which no false lover can escape until it has been entered by a true lover. H421.1
• Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride. H476
• Literary contest won by deception: he who will be first silenced is the loser. When the false teacher answers in nonsense syllables, the true scholar is speechless and so loses contest. H507.6
• "Rue not a thing that is past": counsel proved wise by experience. Man lets bird go and then, having listened to bird's false declaration that she had a precious gem in her body, he tries to climb a tree after her and falls. J21.12
• Confession induced by bringing an unjust action against accused. False message to thief's wife to send the stolen jewel case as bribe to the judge. She does. J1141.4
• Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
• Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
• False witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel. J1154.3
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• Repartee concerning false reform. J1400
• Trumpeter's false defense. A trumpeter captured pleads that he did not fight. Answered: "You may not fight, but you encourage your men to do so." J1465
• Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
• Wolf scorns salt meat (etc.) in false expectation of other booty. J2066.4
• Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. J2099.1
• Trickster's false creations fail him. A trickster creates men from his excrements (or the like). They melt in the sun. J2186
• Woman to sound bell for help in childbirth persuaded to sound false alarms: not heeded when help is needed. J2199.1.2
• Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. J2210
• False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area. J2214.12
• Sale of false treasure. K120
• False offer to return goods in place of payment. K231.6
• Creditor falsely reported insane when he demands money. K242
• Reduced prices but false weights. K286
• Trickster falsely announces marriage celebration and distracts owner's attention. K341.12
• Theft by reporting relative's sickness. Woman falsely told that her father is wounded leaves her water pot with jackal. K343.1.2
• Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse. K346.1
• Theft by presenting false order to guardian. K362
• Deposit money secured by false order to banker's wife. When banker refuses to redeliver deposit the owner presents false tokens to wife. K362.6
• Stolen goods left in suitor's room. Impoverished lover falsely accused so as to be rid of him. K401.3
• False claim of reward. K442
• Money exacted from watchers who permit chest to be stolen. The chest is said falsely to be full of money and the watchers subject to severe punishment. K443.3.1
• Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriage. K443.6.1
• Deception into giving false credit. K455
• False articles used to produce credit. K476.2
• False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money. K476.4
• False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. K484.3
• God cheats birds by giving false description of tamarind fruit. K499.6
• Dog buried instead of foster son, who is falsely reported killed so that he can safely be taken away. K525.6.1
• Escape by leaving behind false images made of spittle. K525.10
• Escape by falsely reporting one's ability to escape. "I should be caught if there were not an escape at the back." When the captors run to the rear, the captive escapes. K542
• Escape by falsely reporting approach of rescuers. K545
• Man takes off wig, takes out false teeth, takes off wooden leg, overawes Indians. K547.2
• Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape. K550
• Escape by false plea: jackal asks to be able to clasp tree before crocodile kills it. K551.23
• Escape by false prophecy: if corpses are buried in city, it will become a ruin: king releases condemned man. K575
• Escape by false plea – miscellaneous. K579
• Cruel king lured to enemy's power by invitation to false execution. He comes to see a girl die and is killed himself. K811.3
• Victim lured into approach by false token. K839.2
• False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. K929.12
• Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property. K941
• Murder by crushing in false embrace. K953.4
• Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
• Deception through false doctoring. K1010
• Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him. K1012
• False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. K1013
• False hair-restorer injures patient. K1013.5
• False remedy for toothache. K1015
• God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father. K1094.1
• Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump. K1232
• Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him. K1265
• Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct. K1271.1.2
• Seduction upon false promise of marriage. K1315.8
• Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father. K1354
• Seduction by bringing false order from husband. K1354.2
• Seduction by bearing false order from mother. K1354.3
• Seduction by bearing false order from lover. K1354.4
• Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover. By following suggestions in her false accusations to confessor the lover reaches her side. K1584
• Woman who engages false bridegroom for her daughter has plans go astray. Daughter is seduced. K1624