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- Demon (opposed to God) allowed to earth four times a year (but must let people know who he is and not deceive them). A106.2.1.2
- Moon deceives sun. A753.3.1
- Why hyena has short left hind foot. Deceived into jumping by jackal. (Cf. A2284.6.) A2375.2.5
- Serpent as deceiver in paradise. B176.1.1
- Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her. D616
- Enemy's army deceived by illusion produced by saint. D2163.7
- Resuscitation: ghosts deceived so that they cannot find way back to grave. E141
- Ghost deceived. E432
- Haunting ghost deceived so that he cannot find road to return. E432.1
- Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
- Changeling deceived into betraying his age. F321.1.1
- Demons assume human forms in order to deceive. F402.1.4
- Demon takes on form of God to deceive faithful. F402.1.4.1
- Spirits deceived by drum-beats and hoodwinkings. F405.3
- Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. G303.16.19.4.1
- Ogre deceived into self-injury. G520
- Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. G524
- Ogre deceived into hanging himself. G524.1
- Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
- Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he smells human blood. G532
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