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- Elephant tricked into eating own testicles. Has them inside. (Cf. A2365.1.1.) A2284.4
- Magic object acquired by tricking giant. Giant is persuaded to give the objects to the hero. (Cf. D831, where the person tricked is often a giant.) D833
- Revenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.) E464
- Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. G519.1.4
- Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. G519.5
- Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. G561
- Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
- The thief is tricked into revealing himself in church. J1141.15
- The thief is tricked into betraying himself in supposed ordeal. J1141.16
- Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
- Thief tricked into robbing himself. He has placed a coat on the goods to be stolen. His associate changes the place of the coat. K439.3
- Tiger persuaded by jackals to settle argument. Tricked. K555.3
- Abductors tricked into running race while captive escapes. K624
- Victim tricked into prison and kept there. K714.1
- Victim tricked into entering box. K714.2
- Victim tricked into jumping in a box by making him think he is going to heaven. (Cf. K842.) K714.2.1
- Dupe tricked into entering hollow tree. K714.3
- Victim tricked into entering basket. K714.4
- Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. K722
- Dupe tricked into well: left there. K735.5