53 motifs match “feigned”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death. A2479.8
• Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness. B335.2
• Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
• 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
• Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness. H466
• Feigned absence to test wife's faithfulness. H466.1
• Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia. H467.1
• Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
• Quest assigned because of feigned dream. H1212.1
• Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble. H1558.1
• Test of friendship: death feigned to test debtor friends. H1558.5
• King brought to sense of duty by feigned conversation of birds. Philosopher pretends to know bird's language and to be translating what they tell him. J816.1
• Detection through feigned dream. J1147
• Feigned madness unmasked by threatening man's child. J1149.1
• Death feigned to avoid paying debts. K246
• Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) K522.0.1
• Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot. K522.3
• Illness (madness, dumbness, etc.) feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K522.0.1, K523.1.) K523.0.1
• Illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress. K523.0.1.1
• Illness feigned to escape unwelcome meeting. K523.0.2
• Murder feigned to effect escape. Knight is refused permission to leave city. He rushes to city gates and pretends that he has just killed a public enemy. Is aided in his escape. K579.6
• Monkey saves condemned birds through feigned dream. K645
• Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed. K833
• Sleep feigned to kill enemy. K911.3
• Murder by feigned quarrel. Peacemaker killed. K929.6
• Seduction on feigned orders from angel to engender a pope. Girl born. K1315.1.2.1
• Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral. K1325
• Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. K1325.1
• Seduction by feigned illness. K1326
• Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughter. K1327
• Woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness. K1339.3
• Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death. K1352
• Illness feigned to call physician paramour. K1514.11
• The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. K1527
• Death feigned to meet paramour. Meetings in the grave (grave box). K1538
• Death feigned so man can live with mistress. K1538.2
• Illness feigned to go to mistress. Husband leaves bed to go to serving maid. K1569.3
• Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. K1792
• Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. K1792.1
• Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. K1792.2
• Deception by feigned death (sleep). K1860
• Death feigned in order to be carried. K1861
• Death feigned to meet lover. K1862
• Death feigned to learn how soldiers are resuscitated. K1863
• Death feigned to establish reputation of false relic. False resuscitation. K1865
• Death feigned in order to enter land of dead. K1866
• Two friars take arm from corpse and allege it is a miracle-producing relic. One of the tricksters questions its powers in public. Feigns being struck dead. Feigned resurrection. Tricksters enriched as a result. K1976.1
• Friendship feigned to avenge murder. K2010.2
• Illness feigned in order to learn secret. K2091
• Illness feigned in order to get better food. K2091.1
• Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness. S268.1
• Banishment (death) of stepchildren demanded as cure for feigned illness. S322.4.1
• Faithless widow ready to marry messenger who brings news of husband's death. The husband, however, has only feigned death to test her. (Cf. T235.) T231.3