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- Accountants of god keep lists of good and bad acts of human beings. A189.8
- Eclipses when sun smears his face on account of mourning. A737.8
- Account book of men summoned to death kept in heaven. E481.8.1
- Giant rooted to ground because his nails and hair have grown into the earth on account of his great age. F531.1.6.9
- Heart breaks when girl learns men are slain in battle on her account. F1041.1.3.6
- Devil as dog chews up Bibles, hymnbooks, church accounts in church. G303.24.5
- Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
- Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. H344.1
- Account of punishments prepared in hell brings about repentance. J172
- The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: "How if he comes back with it?" "I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake." J1371
- To give the accounting afterward. A nobleman embezzles money from the public treasury. When counsellors urge an accounting, he replies that he is ready as soon as they have themselves made an accounting of all their transactions. They are ready to let well enough alone. J1627
- Poet goes to king to complain of destruction of his dwelling. King requires story. Poet recites list, ending with account of the destruction of his dun. Reparation granted. J1675.6
- Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife. J2082
- "Cutting the paper of the accounts" (falsifying accounts). Fool cuts up account books. J2489.4
- Statue mourned and buried in order to account for murdered person. K661.2
- 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
- Man pardoned for short accounts when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor as alms. Q44.2
- God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Q553.3.1
- Exposure given up on account of newborn son's protesting stanza. S341.1
- Stingy dead woman raises her head to correct account of laundress, who is overcharging her daughter. W152.3