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• Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant. A11.1
• Origin of distilling. Learned from devil. (Cf. A1427.2.) A1456
• How people learned about calculating time and the seasons. A1485
• Burial learned from watching raven bury its dead. A1591.1
• Animal characteristics learned from another animal. A2271
• How bird learned to build nest. A2431.1
• Fortune learned from serpent. B161.2
• Animal languages learned from animal. B165
• Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) B165.1
• Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.) B165.1.1
• Animal languages learned from frog. B165.2
• Animal language learned. B217
• Animal languages learned from eating animal. B217.1
• Animal languages learned from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.) B217.1.1
• Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart. B217.1.2
• Animal languages learned from eating plant. B217.2
• Animal languages learned from ghosts (spirits). B217.3
• Animal languages learned from carrying churchyard mould in hat. B217.4
• Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed. B217.5
• Animal languages learned by exchanging tongues with helpful dragon. B217.6
• Language of animals learned by Adam from Eve. B217.8
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• People taught by God to work: claim they learned by own efforts. C53.1
• Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. C735.2.9
• Ring springs asunder when faithlessness of lover is learned. D1318.9.1
• Magic arts learned in hell. D1721.1.1
• Soothsaying learned from a god. D1726.0.1
• Magic power learned from giant (as foster-father). D1727
• Song learned in dream. (Cf. D1275.) D1731.1
• Magic knowledge learned from magician teacher. D1810.4
• Future learned by sitting on hide. D1812.3.1
• Future learned through omens. D1812.5
• Magic remedy learned by magic. (Cf. D1500.) D1818
• Alphabet written on cake learned by eating it. D1819.4.2
• Person remembers all he has ever learned. D1911
• Means of resuscitation learned. E181
• Learned professor from one university examines by signs a professor at another university (actually shoemaker or miller or the like). H607.2.1
• Question (propounded on quest): Why does no one desire to eat fruits of a certain tree? Answer: Tree in its last birth had been a very learned man who gave his knowledge away. H1292.2.1
• Young sparrows have learned to avoid men. Sparrow quizzes his four young as to how to avoid danger from men. Their year of experience has taught them enough. J13
• Why great man plays with children. This is to be learned only when one has children himself. Anecdote of Agesilaus. J25
• Cleverness of men disguised as peasants dissuades rivals from dispute. Wise men of two rival cities engage in dispute. One delegation disguises as peasants and debates with their adversaries. Latter withdraw fearing how clever the educated must be if their peasants are so learned. J31.1
• Unscrupulous conduct of business learned from observation of usurer's own practices and used against him. J56
• Birds having learned their possible dangers are forced from nest by mother. J65
• Wisdom learned from children. J120
• Wisdom learned from example of insects. J137
• Wisdom learned in underground kingdom: the passions of a human being could not be satisfied on earth. J179.2
• Choice of a learned crow: a dead cat better than a golden crown. J242.7
• Learned person worth two unlearned. Latter wastes time, former not. J252
• Prevention of hostilities by disarming the suspect. Later learned that he is a fugitive murderer. J626
• After one day of schooling children are ordered by their father to cease associating with the unlearned. J977
• Pouring water into the inkwell. Soldier accused of stealing slavegirl from author. Girl told to pour water into an inkwell. She does it so skillfully that she must have learned it from the author. J1176.1
• Learned words misunderstood by uneducated. J1803
• What killed the wolf. Peasants find a dead wolf and debate what killed it. A learned man shows that it froze internally from eating cold flesh. J2284
• Wise man disguised as monk beats learned heretic in debate. K3.4
• Secret of external soul learned by deception. K975.2
• Secret learned by intoxicating dupe. K1165
• Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise. K1321.1.3
• Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. K1532.2
• Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased. K1533
• Crow gets to owls pretending crows have cast him out. Having learned secret retreats of owls, he returns to crows and leads them to victory over owls. K2042
• The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
• Ignorant surpasses learned man. L144
• Vow not to take food or drink until manner of father's death is learned. M151.3
• The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
• Wager about tree names: learned and common names. Brahmin gives learned names but servant's common names are confirmed by illiterate peasants. N51.1
• Greedy disciple decides to remain in city despite learned teacher's warning and is condemned to take the place of a thief. N347.7
• Valuable secrets learned. N440
• Secret remedies learned from green-clad woman. N455.5
• Secret about prince's father learned by eavesdropper from his mother's talking to him. N455.7
• Location of sought object learned from overheard conversation. N455.9
• Secret learned by torture. N482
• Secret learned by burning hand. N482.1
• Learned professions. P420
• Druid (poet, learned man). P427
• Miscellaneous learned professions. P429
• Man pardoned for short accounts when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor as alms. Q44.2
• Crab walks backward: learned from his parents. U121.1
• Mill horse when taken to war keeps going in a circle, as he has learned in the mill. U137
• Man convicted of cheating at his bookkeeping is excused when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor. V416.1