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- Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death. A2479.8
- Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness. B335.2
- Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
- 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
- Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness. H466
- Feigned absence to test wife's faithfulness. H466.1
- Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia. H467.1
- Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
- Quest assigned because of feigned dream. H1212.1
- Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble. H1558.1
- Test of friendship: death feigned to test debtor friends. H1558.5
- King brought to sense of duty by feigned conversation of birds. Philosopher pretends to know bird's language and to be translating what they tell him. J816.1
- Detection through feigned dream. J1147
- Feigned madness unmasked by threatening man's child. J1149.1
- Death feigned to avoid paying debts. K246
- Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) K522.0.1
- Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot. K522.3
- Illness (madness, dumbness, etc.) feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K522.0.1, K523.1.) K523.0.1
- Illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress. K523.0.1.1
- Illness feigned to escape unwelcome meeting. K523.0.2