32 motifs match “pretended”  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil interrupts mass by pretended battle. G303.9.9.2
• Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright. J1147.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: pretended swallowing. One bullock keeps mouth in water. Other drinks self to death. K82.4
• Betrayal through pretended fountain of youth. K116.1
• Devil cheated by pretended hanging. The man has promised himself to the devil in return for money. He stuffs his clothes with straw and hangs them up. The devil thinks the man has hanged himself and is satisfied. K215
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's ferocious animal. Pretended dog is really a lion. K335.0.6
• Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. K335.1.10
• Escape by pretended lousing. Captive pretends to louse the captor but deceives him by cracking berries in the teeth (or the like). K611.1
• Escape by pretended cooking. Girl pretends to be cooking meal for animal husband: escapes. K611.2
• Escape on ship on wheels after having deceived the captor into laying away sword and helm to receive pretended gift. K611.3
• Escape by pretended debate as to which must be judged. Jackals thus induce leopard to permit them to enter their cave, while he waits in vain. K622.1
• Escape by pretended bathing of guard. Boiling water used. K629.1
• Pretended friend puts food on far side of hidden ditch, victim falls in and is killed. K811.5
• Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. K867
• Deception by pretended lousing. K874
• Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. K875
• Pretended flight draws victims. K929.4
• Pretended exchange of confidences as to the one thing that can kill. K975.1
• Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. K1517.9
• Pretended sick man aroused by beating. K1676
• Pretended anger. K1772
• Deception by pretended faint. K1818.6
• Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient's body. K1871.2
• Sham wise man (girl's confederate) interprets pretended dream for girl. Insists she be allowed to marry man of her own choice. K1956.6
• Pretended virtue. K2050
• Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money. K2054
• Pretended piety. K2058
• King accidentally cured by doctor's ruse and excuses pretended inability to cure him. N648
• Punishment: death pretended becomes real. Q591.1
• Man dies from pretended illness. Q591.3
• Pretended abduction. Adulterous wife plots own abduction by paramour. R10.2
• Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to strip. T72.1