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- Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia. H467.1
- Cock feigns death to see what hens will say about him. H1556.1.1
- Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self. J1172.4
- What the bear whispered in his ear. Paid guide climbs tree and leaves traveler to mercy of a bear. Traveler feigns death and the bear sniffs at him and leaves. The guide: "What did the bear say to you?" "He said, never trust a coward like you." J1488
- Eating cure becomes epidemic. A woman feigns periodic attacks of a sickness that can be cured only by eating a great number of delicacies. The husband feigns the same disease. J1511.3
- Fits become epidemic. After dinner a servant feigns a fit and goes to sleep. The master thereupon feigns a fit and beats the boy, who is thus cured of his laziness. J1511.4
- Corpse to be cut in two for easy carrying. Husband who feigns death hears wife propose this. He upbraids her; she replies: "If you had really died I should have given myself up to be burnt." J1545.8
- Clever hero feigns dullness so as to avenge himself on king. J1675.7
- Race won by deception: sham-sick trickster. The trickster feigns lameness and receives a handicap in the race. He then returns and eats up the food which is the prize. K11.5
- Trickster feigns ability to influence the sun; sells services. Sun to shine on fools' backs as they go to town in morning and return in afternoon. K154
- Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. K314
- Thief feigns illness to be taken in victim's house. (Cf. K341.2.2.1.) Ransacks it while "recovering." K325
- Trickster quarrels with owner of goods, feigns death, and frightens owner away. K335.0.3
- Animal feigns death repeatedly and then entices owner from goods. K341.2.1
- Man feigns sickness in order to go back to steal hidden gold. (Cf. K325.) K341.2.2.1
- Owner feigns madness and thus raises alarm: thieves captured. K439.9
- The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
- Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
- Compassionate executioner: feigns to torture victim. K512.3
- Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. K815.16