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• Why a certain tribe wear clothes like dogs (supposed descendants of a bitch mother). A1683.2
• "Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind. A2332.6
• Leek put under the tongue of supposed dead person preserves him from harm by burial. (Cf. D983.3.) D1389.12
• Ghosts haunt house. (It is sometimes hard to tell whether haunters are supposed to be ghosts or familiar spirits of some kind.) E281
• Fairy spell averted by turning coat. This is supposed to reverse the spell. F385.1
• Dame Berchta. Supposed to travel over the country at night with a troop. (Named from Bertha, the mother of Charlemagne.) Also called Frau Holle. F475.1
• Serpent-eye. Eyes so keen that man is supposed to have serpents in them. F541.1.4
• Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. F1041.16.10
• Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
• Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
• The thief is tricked into betraying himself in supposed ordeal. J1141.16
• Person runs from actual or supposed ghost. (Cf. E293, J1483.) J1495
• Man runs from actual or from supposed ghost. The ghost runs beside him. The man stops to rest; the ghost stops, says, "That was a good run we had!" The man says, "Yes, and as soon as I get my breath, I'm going to run some more." J1495.1
• The abbot cannot find his needle. An undesirable abbot furnishes adequate grounds for his dismissal when he cannot find the needle that all monks are supposed to carry with them. If careless in little things he will be careless in great. J1651
• Glowing wheel supposed to be the devil. J1781.3
• Objects supposed to be born, grow, and die like animals. (Cf. J1932.) J1896
• Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. J1931
• Falling star supposed to have been shot down by astronomer. J2275.1
• Clouds supposed to come from smoke. J2277.1
• Supposed dead man on bier threatens his bearers. J2311.5.1
• Supposed dead man roused with whip. J2311.12
• Sale of dog supposed to excrete sweet dung: dupe deceived. K135.1.3
• Trickster persuades dupe to sacrifice animal and give it to him as payment for supposed services. K158
• Guessing name of devil's secret plant. The man's wife in tar and feathers overhears the devil tell the secret name of the crop he has discovered (tobacco). The devil says to the supposed animal, "Get out of my tobacco!" K216.2.1
• Damages for supposedly lost horse. Horse concealed by owner in loft of stable at inn. K251.4
• Thief disguised as corpse. In the shroud of the supposed dead man is hidden another robber. K311.1
• The supposed magic spell. The thief orders the farmer to crawl into a tub and to sit there quietly and not look about, while he makes a magic spell (cure him of childlessness). Meanwhile, he steals all the farmer's property. K341.22
• Thieves directed to a hornet's nest as supposed money hiding place. K421.2
• Money exacted from watcher who permits theft of wooden cow supposed to be real. K443.4
• Nugget of supposed gold (lead) given to help build church: money then borrowed. K476.2.1
• Husband and wife each receive money (from different persons) to bury the other, who is supposed to be dead. K482.1
• Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. K775
• Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed. K816
• Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.) K845
• Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved. K891.4
• Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) K1252
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him. K1923.2
• Warrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary. Not supposed to have been able to do it if latter was awake. K2116.5
• Trickster fills supposed treasure box with trash. Joint owners each accuse other of theft. K2131.4
• Fool (person) disguised as (supposed) king killed. N338.2
• Woman feigns death to meet exiled lover. It leads to his death. Lover hears of her supposed death, returns and submits to execution. N343.3
• Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance. P236.2
• Woman hidden in sacred place which her lover is not supposed to dare to enter. R53.2
• Wife repays husband's supposed adultery by doing likewise. T257.7.1
• Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors. T456.1
• Hero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear. T645.4
• Wife too lazy to spin. Supposed dead husband comes back to life and gives his wife a beating, because there was no shirt even in the event of death. W111.3.5