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Motifs — first 20 of 101
- Why animals are deceptive. A2525
- Why hare is deceptive. A2525.1
- Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
- Lender repays borrower for deceptive loan. J1556
- Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
- Deceptive invitation to feast. J1577
- Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
- Deceptive shinny match. K23
- Deceptive contest in chopping. K44
- Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
- Deceptive contest in fasting. K53
- Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
- Deceptive contest in carrying a horse. The ogre carries it on his back and soon tires; the man carries it between his legs (rides). K72
- Deceptive contest in squeezing hands. The man has an iron glove on. K73
- Deceptive contest in pulling fingers. The man has an iron finger. K74
- Deceptive eating contest. K81
- Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.) K81.1
- Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
- Deceptive eating contest: inexhaustible food. Hero can produce unlimited food which opponents must eat. K81.3
- Deceptive drinking contest. K82