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• Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
• Fettered monster questions visitor. He asks "Are lambs still being produced?" or the like; i.e. is nature still normal? He must remain fettered till he hears that nature's laws no longer hold. A1074.3
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Animal characteristics: punishment for immoderate request. Dissatisfied animal finds that when his request is granted he is worse off than before. A2232
• Beetle makes immoderate request; ant moderate: inverse awards. Creator hears wishes of animals. Beetle wants strong, noble appearance. Ant is modest. Beetle punished by being made to creep on ground. Ant is given own castle. (Cf. A2441.3.1.) A2232.3
• Fly punished for failing to answer question: is speechless, buzzes and associates with foul things. (Cf. A2426.3.3, A2433.5.2.) A2239.2
• Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. B363.1
• Animal helps on quest for vanished wife. B543.0.1
• Tabu: questioning supernatural wife. C31.4.1
• Tabu: questioning supernatural husband. C32.2
• Tabu: asking questions. C410
• Tabu: boasting of love-conquest. C453
• All questions to be answered, "I don't know". A youth is so advised by his horse. C495.1
• All questions to be answered "Thanks". Youth is so advised by old woman helper. C495.3
• Tabu: killing king, even at his own request. C563.6
• The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed. C651
• Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. C714
• Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. C735.2.9
• Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
• Tabu: refusing a request. C871
• Tabu: bearded man refusing request. C871.0.1
• Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. C872
• Quest imposed for breaking tabu. C991
• Magic object acquired as reward for quest into grave. D855.3
• Quest to hell for magic object. D859.2
• Mirror answers questions. (Cf. D1163, D1323.1.) D1311.2
• Moon (stars) answers questions. D1311.6.1
• Magic cloud answers questions. (Cf. D901.) D1311.6.2
• Sun answers questions. (Cf. D1291.1.) D1311.6.3
• Coconut shell answers questions. Sinks for yes, floats for no. (Cf. D985.1.) D1311.9
• Poet's spell causes ale vessels to burst when request for ale is refused. (Cf. D1275.4.) D1318.12.1.1
• Fallen trees upraised at saint's request. D1602.2.1
• Power of prophecy lost by spitting. When possessor of power on request spits into mouth of man who has taught him, he loses the power. D1812.6.1
• Dead lover sets tasks. If girl does not perform them (or answer his questions) he will carry her off. E212
• Questions to dead are dangerous. E545.5
• Demon occupies oracular artificial head and gives responses to questions. F415
• Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.) F451.4.4.3
• Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals. F451.5.15
• Wise man answers all questions. F645.1
• Dumbness cured by question. F954.2
• Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. F954.2.1
• Dumbness cured by saint's question. F954.2.2
• Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request. F971.4
• Fruit produced out of season at saint's request. F971.5.1
• Death from chagrin. Man cannot answer question. F1041.1.3.10
• Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
• Student is helped by devil when he can answer three questions in rhyme. (Cf. H543.) G303.22.3
• Suitors assigned quests. H336
• Wise man answers questions of many with single speech. H501.2
• Test: finding answer to certain question. H508
• King propounds questions to his sons to determine successor. H508.1
• Bride offered to man who can find answer to question. H508.2
• Question: "What is under my cloak?" Questioner has branch of blackthorn laden with berries under her cloak. H526
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions. H561.2
• Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant. H561.3
• King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers. H561.4
• King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions to his clever minister. H561.5
• King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers. H561.6
• 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
• Counterquestions. Riddles answered by a question that reduces the riddle to an absurdity. H571
• Counterquestion: "What is difference between you and an ass? What is difference between you and a cushion." H571.1
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• How many leaves are on the tree? Counterquestion: how many stars in the sky? (Cf. H702.) H705.3
• Task (quest) assigned at suggestion of jealous co-wife. H911.1
• Quest assigned by scorned princess. H933.4
• Quest. H1200
• Quest assigned. H1210
• Quest assigned by father. H1210.1
• Quest assigned by king. H1210.2
• Quests assigned in order to get rid of hero. H1211
• Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
• Quest assigned because of feigned dream. H1212.1
• Quest assigned by wife through appeal to husband's love for her. He is sent for liver of dangerous animal. H1212.2
• Prince sulks until quest is accomplished. H1212.3
• Quest assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H1212.4
• Quest for remarkable bird caused by sight of one of its feathers. H1213
• Quest for princess caused by sight of one of her hairs dropped by a bird (or floating on river). H1213.1
• Quest for man caused by sight of one of his hairs dropped by bird (or floating on river). H1213.1.1
• Quest for original of picture. H1213.1.2
• Quest for strong man caused by sight of his handiwork. H1213.2
• Quest assigned because of hero's knowledge of animal languages. H1214
• Quest for beautiful girl about whom parrots are heard speaking. H1214.1
• Quest assigned because of hero's boast. H1215
• Quest assigned because of dream. H1217
• Quest for explanation of dream. H1217.1
• King possessing one marvelous object sends hero on quest for another like it. H1218
• Assignment of quests – miscellaneous. H1219
• Quest assigned as payment for gambling loss. (Cf. H942.) H1219.1
• Quest assigned as payment for magic object. H1219.1.1
• Quest assigned as punishment for murder. H1219.2
• Quest assigned as punishment by father of abducted girl. H1219.3
• Quest assigned by fairy. (Cf. H938.) H1219.4
• Quest assigned prisoner. H1219.5
• Quest assigned as result of slander. H1219.6
• Quest assigned as payment for hospitality. H1219.7
• Quest assigned as punishment for curiosity. H1219.8
• Quests voluntarily undertaken. H1220
• Quest for adventure. H1221