Both Uses

deceive
in
The Jungle Book
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Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa ... who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
p. 73.2 *

deceived = tricked
There were long stretches of smooth-worn rock running for miles, exactly fitted to make seal-nurseries, and there were play-grounds of hard sand sloping inland behind them, and there were rollers for seals to dance in, and long grass to roll in, and sand dunes to climb up and down, and, best of all, Kotick knew by the feel of the water, which never deceives a true sea catch, that no men had ever come there.†
p. 140.8

deceives = lies or misleads

Definitions:

(1) (deceive)
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)