46 motifs match “feigns”  ·  back to the chapters

• Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia. H467.1
• Cock feigns death to see what hens will say about him. H1556.1.1
• Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self. J1172.4
• What the bear whispered in his ear. Paid guide climbs tree and leaves traveler to mercy of a bear. Traveler feigns death and the bear sniffs at him and leaves. The guide: "What did the bear say to you?" "He said, never trust a coward like you." J1488
• Eating cure becomes epidemic. A woman feigns periodic attacks of a sickness that can be cured only by eating a great number of delicacies. The husband feigns the same disease. J1511.3
• Fits become epidemic. After dinner a servant feigns a fit and goes to sleep. The master thereupon feigns a fit and beats the boy, who is thus cured of his laziness. J1511.4
• Corpse to be cut in two for easy carrying. Husband who feigns death hears wife propose this. He upbraids her; she replies: "If you had really died I should have given myself up to be burnt." J1545.8
• Clever hero feigns dullness so as to avenge himself on king. J1675.7
• Race won by deception: sham-sick trickster. The trickster feigns lameness and receives a handicap in the race. He then returns and eats up the food which is the prize. K11.5
• Trickster feigns ability to influence the sun; sells services. Sun to shine on fools' backs as they go to town in morning and return in afternoon. K154
• Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. K314
• Thief feigns illness to be taken in victim's house. (Cf. K341.2.2.1.) Ransacks it while "recovering." K325
• Trickster quarrels with owner of goods, feigns death, and frightens owner away. K335.0.3
• Animal feigns death repeatedly and then entices owner from goods. K341.2.1
• Man feigns sickness in order to go back to steal hidden gold. (Cf. K325.) K341.2.2.1
• Owner feigns madness and thus raises alarm: thieves captured. K439.9
• The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
• Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
• Compassionate executioner: feigns to torture victim. K512.3
• Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. K815.16
• Man feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieve. K911.2
• Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes. K1227.5
• Trickster rides dupe a-courting. Feigns sickness and persuades dupe to carry him. Thus wins the girl. K1241.1
• Hero feigns death and is copulated with by divine maidens. K1325.0.1
• Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. K1325.1
• Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) K1349.1.5
• Cuckold feigns to be asleep when paramour calls. K1501.2
• Wife feigns death and slips out to lover. K1538.1
• Wife surprised in adultery feigns death. Comes "back to life" on hearing husband say he has seen nothing. (Cf. K1538.) K1549.2
• Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour. K1553
• Husband feigns illness to surprise wife with paramour. (Cf. K1514.11.) K1553.1
• Paramour feigns loss of genitals in order to obtain the husband's confidence. K1586
• The lawyer's mad client. (Pathelin.) On the advice of a lawyer, the client feigns insanity when arraigned in court. When the fee is demanded, he still feigns insanity. K1655
• When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback. K1777
• Animal feigns lameness. K1818.5
• Trickster feigns death and eats the ripe fruit from the tree. K1867.1
• 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
• Trickster feigns deafness and gets hospitality from miser. K1981.1
• Adulteress feigns unusual sensitiveness. K2051
• Adulteress feigns great disdain of men; will look at none but husband (and lover). K2051.3
• Fox feigns to be playing with sheep: dog drives him off. K2061.2
• Maidservant's confederate feigns coming out of woman's bedroom. K2112.2.3
• Rabbi feigns death to be carried out of the besieged city and to approach enemy. K2357.4
• Wager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wager. N63
• Woman feigns death to meet exiled lover. It leads to his death. Lover hears of her supposed death, returns and submits to execution. N343.3
• Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure her. T55.5