57 motifs match “tricked”  ·  back to the chapters

• Elephant tricked into eating own testicles. Has them inside. (Cf. A2365.1.1.) A2284.4
• Magic object acquired by tricking giant. Giant is persuaded to give the objects to the hero. (Cf. D831, where the person tricked is often a giant.) D833
• Revenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.) E464
• Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. G519.1.4
• Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. G519.5
• Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. G561
• Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
• The thief is tricked into revealing himself in church. J1141.15
• The thief is tricked into betraying himself in supposed ordeal. J1141.16
• Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
• Thief tricked into robbing himself. He has placed a coat on the goods to be stolen. His associate changes the place of the coat. K439.3
• Tiger persuaded by jackals to settle argument. Tricked. K555.3
• Abductors tricked into running race while captive escapes. K624
• Victim tricked into prison and kept there. K714.1
• Victim tricked into entering box. K714.2
• Victim tricked into jumping in a box by making him think he is going to heaven. (Cf. K842.) K714.2.1
• Dupe tricked into entering hollow tree. K714.3
• Victim tricked into entering basket. K714.4
• Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. K722
• Dupe tricked into well: left there. K735.5
• Unicorn tricked into running horn into tree. K771
• Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) K815.14
• Man killed with sword, which he himself is tricked into passing to captured enemy. K818.1
• Dupe tricked into sleeping. Killed. K834.1
• Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight. K839.6
• Dupe tricked into killing himself. K890
• Dupe tricked into jumping to his death. K891
• Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself. K891.1
• Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. K891.2
• Monkey tricked into jumping in water and drowning self. Jackal hides in reeds which screen water. K891.3
• Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved. K891.4
• Dupe tricked on to slippery road lined with knives. He kills himself. K897
• Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned. K898
• Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre. K945
• Animal tricked into seizing hollow log. Man reaches through and pulls animal's heart out. K952.3
• Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat. K1033
• Dupe tricked into sitting on hot iron. K1074
• Dupe tricked into breaking tabu by lying. K1076
• Men tricked into bathing in "disease-water". K1077
• Dupe tricked in race into falling into a pit. K1171
• The entrapped suitor: tricked into room where he is left to himself. K1218.1.3
• King tricked into sleeping with hag. K1235
• Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom). K1292
• Girl tricked into man's room (or power). K1330
• Girl tricked into man's room (power) – miscellaneous. K1339
• Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. K1339.5
• Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. K1371.2
• Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. K1372.1
• Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. K1395
• Thief climbing rope discovered and rope cut. He has tricked the guardian of the food-supply in the tree (by imitation of the owner's voice or the discovered pass-word) to let down the rope. K1622
• Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." K1637
• Impostors tricked into carrying hero in box. Woman makes them think they will have her as reward. K1942
• Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it. K2335
• Heaven entered by trick: angel tricked by drink into telling woman how to enter. K2371.1.6
• Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate. K2371.2
• Man tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his mother. K2384
• Man admitted to neither heaven nor hell. He has tricked the devil. Q565