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Motifs — first 20 of 34
- Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. A2275.4.1
- Why the guinea fowl has red feet. Cheated and could not stand the ordeal of hot oil poured on his feet. A2375.2.10
- Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. E234.1
- The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
- Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
- A farmer who trades horses with the devil is cheated. G303.25.12
- The cheater cheated. J1510
- The bear mistaken for a saint. The godless man is cheated and attacks a bear thinking it is a saint, and barely escapes with his life. J1762.2.1
- Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
- Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. J2431.1
- Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. K171.0.1
- Devil cheated of his promised soul. The man saves it through deceit. K210
- Devil cheated by imposing an impossible task. K211
- Devil is cheated by giving him task: counting the letters in the church Bible. He is unable to read the holy words. K211.1
- Devil cheated by being frightened. K212
- 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
- Devil cheated by religious or magic means. Missouri French: Carrière. K218
- Devil cheated by having priest draw a sacred circle about the intended victim. K218.1
- Devil cheated of his victim by boy having a bible under his arm. K218.2
- Devil cheated when his victim becomes a priest. K218.3