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• Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller. A852
• Man learns housebuilding from wasp. A1445.2.2
• Nightingale hears boy call oxen: learns her song. (Cf. A2426.2.1.) A2272.1.1
• Cricket hears water hiss on hot iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.3.4.) A2272.1.2
• Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.) A2272.1.3
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• Man borrows money from fairy (dwarf, devil). When the man brings the money back, he learns that the fairy was killed by thunder. He keeps the money. F342.2
• Man learns to fly. F1021.3
• Heart breaks when girl learns men are slain in battle on her account. F1041.1.3.6
• Man dies when he learns storm is magic. F1041.1.7
• Devil takes form of girl's lover and takes advantage of her. She meets lover on way home, learns what has happened, dies. G303.12.5.7
• "Love like wind in hot sun." Husband offended but later learns wife's meaning. H592.1.1
• Animal learns through experience to fear men. In spite of the warning of another animal he approaches man and is shot. J17
• Man learns the fear of Death by meeting Life. Life (old woman) beheads him and replaces his head backwards. Simpleton left in fear for hours before head is readjusted. J27
• Ruler learns lesson from the example of an exiled king. Rewards the exile rather than a successful merchant. J55
• Ruler learns lesson from seeing city governed by king as uncharitable as he. J56.1
• Bear learns how to catch crabs with his hairy claws. J102
• Fool is told to get a pottle of brains. He tries to buy them. He finally learns that advice was to marry a clever girl. J163.2.1
• The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
• The cynic's wish. When he learns that a woman has hanged herself from a tree he explains: "Would that all trees bore such fruit!" J1442.11.1
• Overcurious wife learns of the senate's deliberations. Husband (son) tells her that they have decided that each man may have many wives. Gullible wife believes it. J1546
• The minstrel repays the cobbler. The cobbler learns the minstrel's songs and sings them so that the minstrel loses his trade. He in turn sews the cobbler's leather into crazy shapes. He has done no worse than the cobbler, who marred his songs. When they sing together the people realize the contrast and patronize the minstrel. J1632
• Fool learns to repeat commonplace expressions: by chance thus scares off wife's suitors. J2461.2.2
• Payment of money to the devil impossible, since debtor learns that the devil is dead. K231.4
• Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it. K301.1
• Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag. K321
• Trickster dupes woman into putting him into basket. He thus learns where food is kept. K359.3
• 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
• Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633
• Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) K1837.2
• Deceptive cure by illusion. Man told that he can be cured only with blood of his own child. He is made to believe that the child is killed. When he learns that the child is still alive, the excess of joy cures him. K1889.2
• Rearing the large-headed and large-eyed bird. When the one rearing the owl learns its age he kills it. K1985
• Ass is jealous of the horse until he learns better. L452
• Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he be killed in a fight. He breaks his leg and cannot take part. Meantime the king learns of his innocence. N178.1
• Mother dies of fright when she learns that she was about to commit incest with her son. He has disguised himself to test her chastity. N383.3
• Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princess. N453
• Husband learns of wife's fidelity through conversation overheard. N455.6
• Friend lingering in the kitchen learns of friend's distress and helps him. N455.8
• Ruler makes ready to abandon barren wife and marry another. He remains with her when he learns that she is with child. N681.2
• Man in love with his own sister accidentally learns her identity. N681.3.2
• Saint prays with woman; learns she is his sister. N734.2
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Courtier rewarded for resisting princess's advances. When her father learns of the affair he rewards the courtier and has him marry his daughter. Q87.2
• Father learns that his son is planning to kill him. Gives his son a weapon to do so. Son repents. S22.3
• Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death. T295
• Hero learns feats of arms through gratifying woman's lust. T453.1
• Hero learns his name at time of first adventure. T617.2
• Man soon learns to stand the smells of the tannery. U133
• Truant boy learns long lesson while asleep with head in saint's lap. V223.4.1
• "Who will not work, shall not eat." Idle daughter-in-law learns work. W111.3.6
• Man helping another across stream drops him when he learns that he has lost his high position. W155.2
• Abraham learns to worship God. At nightfall Abraham worships a star, then the moon, then the sun, and finally gives up idolatry. Z42.2