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- Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) G242.8
- Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. G303.16.19.4.1
- Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. G524
- How the first man killed himself. The second fool imitates the first who leaps from a palm tree by means of a looped rope. The first kills himself. The second wants to see just how it happened and kills himself too. J2374
- Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
- The dog imitates a wolf. Wants to kill a horse. He asks the cat: "Is my back bristled, etc." The horse kills him with a kick. (Cf. K1121.) J2413.5
- Foolish imitation of lucky man. Because one man has had good luck a numskull imitates and thinks he will have equal luck. He is disappointed. J2415
- Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
- Pig sees goat return decked with ornaments and plenty of food; goes out and imitates trick played by goat but is beaten instead. J2415.6
- Poor man foolishly imitates rich. J2416
- 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
- Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. K494
- Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. K854
- Wolf brings cake from the window-sill. He imitates the fox in so doing, but rings a bell, so that he is beaten. K1022.4
- Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught. K1026
- The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught. K1115
- The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
- Trickster hides in bag in order to be carried. His father imitates and is beaten. K1892.1
- Bogey imitates mother and kills child. K2011.1.2