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- Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
- Riding contest won by substitution. K27
- Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
- Cheating by substitution of worthless articles. K476
- Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one. K476.8
- Executioner makes substitution when victim escapes. K512.2.2.1
- Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. K520
- Deception into fatal substitution. K840
- Seduction by disguise or substitution. K1310
- Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. K1317.7
- Deception by substitution. K1840
- Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune. K1843.2.3
- Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
- Deception by substitution of children. K1847
- Substitution of children to gain inheritance. K1847.1
- Circumstances of substitution of false bride. K1911.1
- Substitution of false bride revealed by animal. K1911.3.1
- Substitution of false bride revealed by true bride in her animal form. K1911.3.1.1
- Substitutions for penances. Q520.0.1