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N450 Secrets overheard
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- Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversation · N451 entry
- Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches) · N452 entry
- Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princess · N453 entry
- Conversation of objects overheard · N454 entry
- Overheard (human) conversation · N455 entry
- Enigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledge · N456 entry
- Secret physical peculiarity discovered by barber. (Midas.) · N465 entry
- Daughter lousing mother weeps and reveals secret · N466 entry
- King in disguise to learn secrets of his subjects · N467 entry
- Newborn babe reveals secret; then becomes silent · N468 entry
- Foolish attempt of second man to overhear secrets (from animals, demons etc.). He is punished · N471 entry
- Secret name overheard by eavesdropper · N475 entry
- Secret of unique vulnerability disclosed · N476 entry
- Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales · N478 entry
- Secret escapes with man's blood · N481 entry
- Secret learned by torture · N482 entry
- Giant unwittingly reveals span of life to dwarf, who is thus emboldened to attack him · N484 entry