Secret learned by torture.
Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Valuable secrets learned. · Secrets overheard. · view the constellation · filed as N482
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Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversationSecret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches)Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princessConversation of objects overheardOverheard (human) conversationEnigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledgeSecret physical peculiarity discovered by barber. (Midas.)Daughter lousing mother weeps and reveals secretKing in disguise to learn secrets of his subjectsNewborn babe reveals secret; then becomes silentFoolish attempt of second man to overhear secrets (from animals, demons etc.). He is punishedSecret name overheard by eavesdropperSecret of unique vulnerability disclosedSecret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scalesSecret escapes with man's bloodGiant unwittingly reveals span of life to dwarf, who is thus emboldened to attack him