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- Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water. B81.3.1
- Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her. B81.3.2
- Fairy lover entices mortal girl. F301.2
- Elf-knight entices maiden away and kills her. F301.5
- Fairy entices man into fairyland. F302.3.1
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. G264
- Fortune to go to direction cat jumps. King will give wealth to person toward whom the cat jumps. Clever woman has brought mouse along and thus entices the cat. K2.1
- Animal feigns death repeatedly and then entices owner from goods. K341.2.1
- Partridge pretending to be wounded entices woman from food while jackal eats it. K341.5.2
- Trickster entices children to dance and steals their food. K341.17
- Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness. K443.5
- Hero entices enemies into building and sets fire to it. K925.1
- Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. K1213.1