45 motifs match “posing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dog chooses between opposing tribes. B134.4
• Helpful bees (hornets) sting opposing army. B524.2.1
• Virgin Mary's shift as banner causes blindness to opposing army. (Cf. D1058.1.) D1331.2.3
• Saint causes great forest to spring up between opposing forces. D2163.6.1
• Saint causes wall of cakes to spring up between opposing armies. D2163.6.2
• Disposing of a changeling. F321.1.4
• Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. F361.2.1
• Opposing wise men humble themselves and become friends. J917
• Thief posing as corpse detected by pricking soles of his feet. J1149.7
• The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. J1826
• Three brothers take turns using mule. None of them feeds him, supposing that the others have. The mule dies. J1914.2
• Devil cheated by imposing an impossible task. K211
• Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all. K352
• Theft by posing as magician. Trickster claims to be working magic spell over food and eats it. K353
• Theft by posing as master of the house and learning where goods are hidden. Wife deceived in the dark. K362.4
• Escape by posing as member of murderer's family or tribe. K601
• Escape by posing as preceptor of tiger's deceased father. K601.1
• Wolf tries to cheat ewe by posing as ram. K828.3
• Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil. K943
• Opposing witnesses's pockets filled with dung. Discredited. K1291
• Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) K1315.1
• Seduction by posing as Angel Gabriel. K1315.1.1
• Seduction by posing as doctor. K1315.2
• Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) K1315.3
• Seduction by posing as a relative. K1315.4
• Seduction by posing as nobleman. K1315.5
• Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman). K1315.6
• Seduction by posing as saint. K1315.6.4
• Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor. K1315.7
• Seduction by posing as beggar. K1315.10
• Seduction by posing as leper. K1315.11
• Seduction by posing as merchant. K1315.12
• Seduction: weaver posing as king. K1315.14
• Better things at home. A poor boy posing as a prince in the king's court always says that he has better things at home. K1952.2
• Boy, posing as magician, agitates purported all-knowing pig's head in front of his enemies, identifying them as dishonest men. K1956.10
• Master posing as magician plays tricks on his servant. K1963.3
• Supernatural personages seen in dreams advise opposing kings how each can overcome the other. K2035
• King slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his father. P16.7
• Faithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her place. P361.4
• Covering with honey and exposing to flies. Q464
• Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends). Q476
• Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Q557.6
• Child's ankles pierced before exposing him. S333
• Various ways of disposing of dead. V61
• Man miraculously dies for opposing dogma of Immaculate Conception. Attempt to disprove the dogma by false miracle. Sham dead man is to rise if the dogma is not true. He is found to be actually dead. V312.2