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- Deceptive wages: two grains and land to plant them on. Grain multiplies and takes up all of dupe's land. K256.2
- Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag. K321
- Dupe's food eaten and then blame fastened on him. Trickster eats the common food supply and then by smearing the mouth of the sleeping dupe with the food escapes the blame. K401.1
- Stolen goods taken to dupe's house so that he is accused. K401.2
- Dupe's house set afire so that he is burned in trying to put out fire. K812.1
- Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. K858
- Bird flies on head of dupe's child. Dupe strikes at bird and kills child. K946
- Stone (hard fruit) thrown into greedy dupe's mouth. K1035
- Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.) K1251
- Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) K1252
- Dupe's property destroyed. K1400
- Dupe's goods destroyed. K1410
- Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. K1440
- Members of dupe's family killed. K1460
- [First Edition: K1490. Dupe's property destroyed – miscellaneous.] K1490[1st ed.]
- Disguise as dupe's daughter after having killed her. K1839.15