32 motifs match “illusion”  ·  back to the chapters

• Magic object causes illusions. D1368
• Magic snake-oil causes illusions. (Cf. D1244.) D1368.1
• Magic ring causes illusion. (Cf. D1076.) D1368.2
• Magic cloak causes illusion. (Cf. D1053.) D1368.3
• King in the bath; years of experience in a moment. This illusion takes place when the king puts his head under water. D2012.1
• Wizard gives man the illusion that he has been away twenty (forty) years. D2012.2
• Magic illusion. D2031
• Saints cause illusions. D2031.0.1
• Fairies cause illusions. D2031.0.2
• Magic illusion dissipated by sign of the cross. D2031.0.3
• Druids cause illusions. (Cf. D2031.4.1.) D2031.0.4
• Giantess' punishment is pure illusion. D2031.0.5
• Magic illusion as protection. D2031.6
• Pursuers confused in other ways by magic illusion. D2031.6.4
• Armies separated with illusion that each has won object of contention. D2031.8
• Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting. D2031.14
• Enemy's army deceived by illusion produced by saint. D2163.7
• Extraordinary valley which gives the illusion of earthly paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) F756.2.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry (illusion produced by magic thread which makes hero think he is drinking from spring). H1142.2.1
• King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion. K947
• Husband who has surprised wife and paramour is made to believe that he has had an illusion. K1518.1
• Deception by disguise or illusion. K1800
• Illusions. K1870
• Objects (animals) attacked under the illusion that they are men. K1883.2
• Comrade slain under the illusion that he is an enemy. K1883.5
• Illusion of death. K1884
• Illusions in landscape. K1886
• Other illusions. K1889
• Deceptive cure by illusion. Man told that he can be cured only with blood of his own child. He is made to believe that the child is killed. When he learns that the child is still alive, the excess of joy cures him. K1889.2
• Other deceptions by disguise or illusion. K1890
• Unwitting murder because of insane illusion. N325
• Magic illusion prevents men from raising treasure. N564