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Other characters also feign for love. [5] Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt [6] or plowing the beach. Palamedes believed that he was faking and tested it by placing his son, Telemachus right in front of the plow. When Odysseus stopped immediately, his sanity was proven.
Playing possum" can also mean simply pretending to be injured, unconscious, asleep, or otherwise vulnerable, often to lure an opponent into a vulnerable position. [13] The usual advice for humans attempting to survive an attack by a brown bear is to lie face down, cover the face with one's hands/arms/elbows, and 'play dead'. [17]
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
Deaths have been faked since ancient times, but the rate increased significantly in the middle of the 19th century, when life insurance, and insurance fraud, became more common. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the late 20th century, advancements in technology began to make it increasingly more difficult to simply disappear after faking a death.
Birds often feign death to escape predation; for example tonic immobility in quail reduces the probability of attacks by cats. [ 16 ] Death feigning may also play a role in reproduction, for example, in the nursery web spider , the male sometimes feigns death to avoid getting eaten by females during mating. [ 17 ]
The militia would fire two volleys, then feign a rout and pretend to flee. [66] If the British believed they had caused a panic in the militiamen, they would charge forward. [66] But instead of catching up to the fleeing militia, they would run into the third line—Continental Army soldiers commanded by John Eager Howard. [66]
Tania Head had one of the most harrowing accounts from 9/11 and eventually became the president of a survivor's network, but the Spanish woman was ultimately proved to be a fraud and wasn't even ...
In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce (e.g., raising a white flag), but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise.