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• Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved. A853
• Fettered monster kept just out of reach of water. The water is always drunk by vulture as he is ready to take it. A1074.5
• Why dagger must be always cleaned on the inside of the robe. A1599.7
• Why peasant is always busy: he is eager to produce food for all living beings. A1655.1
• Discourteous answer: why cow (horse) is always eating. When God (Peter) wants to use the cow (horse) the excuse is made that she (he) is eating. Curse: "May you always be eating!" (Cf. A2472.1, A2478.) A2231.1.1
• Discourteous answer: tortoise's shell. Zeus celebrates a wedding and invites the animals. Tortoise is late. Why? "I like my house." "May you bear your house always." (Cf. A2312.1.) A2231.1.4
• Beetle cursed for betraying Holy Family on way to Egypt; beetle now has its eyes always on the ground. A2231.7.1.1
• Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. A2275.4.1
• Why diver always looks at sea. (Cf. A2275.5.3.) A2471.4
• Why dog is always looking. A2471.6
• Why animals always look down. A2471.9
• Why donkeys always urinate when others begin. A2495.3
• Discontented pine-tree: cause of pine needles. Pine tree given silk leaves, glass leaves, etc. Always discontented. Finally has needles again. (Cf. A2767.1.) A2723.1
• Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
• Monkeys always copy men. B786
• Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her. D616
• Magic sword always inflicts mortal wounds. D1402.7.1.2
• Magic spear always inflicts mortal wounds. (Cf. D1084.) D1402.7.2.1
• Magic object when sold always returns to original owner. (Cf. D1605, D1602.11.) D1602.17
• Magic banana skin always full of fruit. D1652.1.7.2
• Magic gun is always loaded. (Cf. D1096.1.) D1652.4
• Unerring bow. Always hits mark. (Cf. D1091). D1653.1.4
• Hearth cleaned by angel always free of ashes. (Cf. D1147, V230.) D1683
• Magic rath always seems distant, never near. D2031.13
• Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one. E512
• Spirits are always in the air. E587.4
• Table always set in otherworld dwellings. F165.4
• Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. F321.1.2.2
• Corner of water-spirits' dress is always wet. F420.1.7.1
• Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. F679.7
• Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal. F693
• Pond always clear because deity uses it for his bath. F713.5
• Hill on which snow always melts. F759.3
• Fruits always sweet. F813.0.4
• The devil is always to blame. Even when he tries to be helpful to man. G303.9.3.4
• Jinn always appears out of strong wind. G307.1.1
• Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride. H476
• Contest in making mouths water. Hero uses certain berry that always causes mouths of onlookers to water. H509.2
• King and peasant: the plucked fowl. The king gives riddling questions to a peasant, who always interprets them right. The king says that he will send the peasant a fowl which he shall pluck. The king gives the same questions to his courtiers, who cannot interpret them. They pay the peasant good money for the answers. Peasant tells king that he has plucked the fowl. H561.6.1
• Always eat bread with "honey". (Working diligently, your bread will be as sweet as honey.) H588.11
• "Always wear new shoes." (Walk the fields bare-footed, wearing your shoes only when nearing the town.) H588.13
• "A father should always check and never forgive; a mother should always forgive and never check." H588.19
• "A country not examined in disguise will always be ruined": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.43
• Wisdom from old man: always say, "if it pleases God." J151.4
• Choice: foolish son always with him or four wise daughters who will leave him. Latter chosen. J226.3
• Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe. J711.5
• Flatterer always agrees with king even in opposite opinions; defense: he is king's servant. J814.2
• Money does not always bring happiness. J1085
• Witness always to answer "No." Thus gets self condemned. J1141.13
• Animals render unjust decision against man since man has always been unjust to them. J1172.3.2
• Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are. J1263.1.1
• Child born one month after marriage. Father-in-law to son-in-law: "Do like my grandson and you will always be ahead of others." J1276.1
• Stingy innkeeper cured of serving weak beer. She always gives the servants a pitcher of weak beer before meals so as to fill them up. One of them: "I wash out my insides so as to have more room for food." She changes her practice. J1341.7
• Why soldier is silent before king: is always so when questioned by stupid person. [Inadvertant duplication of J1714.5.] J1369.5
• Must drink from the common cup. A man always drinks out of his own cup. In storm at sea a sailor says, "Today we all drink out of the same cup (the sea). J1467
• Fault-finding husband nonplussed. The wife has cooked so many dishes that when he complains, she can always supply another. Finally he says, "I had rather eat dung." She produces some. J1545.3
• Three reasons for refusing credit. A man asks for credit, although he has always paid cash before. He is refused on these grounds: either (1) he has never found anyone to trust him, (2) he has never bought anything, or (3) he is rich and does not need an extension of time. J1552.2
• Turning the plate around. A cuts the meat and puts all the good things on his side. B turns the plate around: "See how all things turn about in this world." A turns it back: "However the world may turn, with good friends like us the plate will always remain the same." J1562.1
• Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments. J1564.1
• The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
• The forehanded servant. A parson boasts that when he asks his maid if certain work is done she always answers that it has been done long ago. A guest wagers that she can be trapped if she is asked whether she has thrown the parson's suit of clothes into the tub of water. She overhears the wager and has the suit in the water before he asks the question. J1614
• The priest makes the omen come true. A woman crosses herself when she meets a priest, as if he were the devil. She says that meeting a priest always brings her bad luck. The priest knocks her down and steps on her. "As ye believe, so shall it be." J1624
• Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.) J1741.3
• The interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reached. J2035
• Straight path not always shortest. (Cf. J21.5.) J2119.2
• Frogs reprove ass for lamenting when he falls into morass. "What would you do if you had to live here always?" J2211.1
• Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come. J2214.3
• Climb down as you climb up. A peasant falls out of a tree. A neighbor advises him not to climb trees. Another suggests that he always climb down a tree with the same skill and rapidity that he climbed up. J2244
• The dead man speaks up. A numskull who has lain down thinking he is dead is carried off in a bier. The carriers lose their way. He speaks up, "I always went that way when I was alive." J2311.4
• What should I have done (said)? The mother teaches the boy (the man his wife) what he should say (do) in this or that circumstance. He uses the words in the most impossible cases and is always punished. J2461
• The servant to improve on the master's statements. The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, "I have poor eyesight." – The servant, "You don't see at all." (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) J2464
• Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
• Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness. K12.5
• The stolen cow successively pawned. In one night a thief pawns a cow four times, always stealing it immediately and finally delivering it back to its owner. K408
• Robber persuaded to climb down moonbeam. A man hearing a robber enter tells his wife aloud that he always makes a prayer and then enters the house by climbing down a moonbeam. The thief tries it and falls. K1054
• The lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived. K1151
• Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse. K1241
• Sexton's own wife brings her offering. The priest grants to the sexton the offerings brought by all women whom the priest has loved. The priest always calls out "Take" when these women offer. The sexton's own wife comes. The priest calls out "Take!" (Cf. Q384.) K1541
• Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." K1637
• Monkey pretends that his house always answers him. K1722
• Better things at home. A poor boy posing as a prince in the king's court always says that he has better things at home. K1952.2
• Fortunate youngest son. Always has good luck. L11
• Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest son. L101
• Unpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughter. L102
• Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. L144.1
• Prince vows that he will always be servant of a goddess (Kali). M177.2
• Curse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpies. M435
• National disasters occur always at the same date. N128.1
• Unavailing attempt to get rid of slippers; they always return. N211.2
• Treasure-finders always frightened away. N556
• King never touches earth: carried always by slaves. P14.5
• Eternal ferryman. Always transports passengers and when the ruler is in danger takes his place. (Cf. Q25.) P413.1
• Monks' who always shared with the poor receive supplies of flour or bread. Q141.1
• Punishment: delicious food always fills with maggots just as man is about to eat it. Q501.2.2
• King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Q520.4
• Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q553.5
• Man reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. The man replies that he was always looking for a good wife. T251.0.3
• The browbeaten husband from under the table: "The man always has a man's heart." T251.6
• Mistress has always said her "Aves": Virgin Mary refuses to help wife against her rival. The wife tells this to the mistress, who repents. T285
• Prostitute will deceive new lover as always. U129.2