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J92 Boy saves life by showing father foolishness of plowing up his crop. Father has been persuaded to kill child
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- Three thousand parables of Solomon · J80.1 entry
- Minister taught by parable to make obeisance to the new king · J80.2 entry
- The dishes of the same flavor. Man thus shown that one woman is like another and dissuaded from his amorous purpose · J81 entry
- Priest walks in the mud. Congregation follows evil ways of priest. He walks in mud but they will not follow him. He thus shows them the folly of following his evil ways · J82 entry
- The gray and the black hairs: enemies reconciled. Duke summons two inveterate enemies. Has them tear out one of his hairs, one a gray, the other a black. Both pain him equally. He shows how their quarrels hurt him. They are reconciled · J83 entry
- Picking up water thrown on ground no harder than the undoing of slander · J84 entry
- Chair over fiery pit as figure of precariousness of life · J85 entry
- Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning · J86 entry
- Men shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161]) · J87 entry
- Wisdom taught by parable: cloud which gives rain to thirsting crops or drops it in ocean · J88 entry