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- 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
- Husband advised how to resuscitate his wife: lift her up and turn her around so her head rests upon the brick which had been under her feet. E181.1
- Man advised how to resuscitate his mother: break waternuts on her head: she would revive and live one year for each nut broken. E181.1.1
- Devil advises young girl not to go to a castle. Later, when she returns pregnant she says that the devil advised her to serve at the castle. He slaps her and tells her she is lying. G303.9.7.1
- Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
- Man advised to choose good poor man for his daughter's husband rather than rich man. J247.1
- Stork killed along with cranes. Ill-advised associations end fatally. J451.2
- King advised to marry maid rather than widow. Widow would have things her own way. J482
- Young man advised to choose as wife a girl whose mother was chaste. J482.3
- Miser's treasure stolen. Advised to imagine that his treasure is still there: he will be as well off as before. J1061.4
- Tenant advised by landlord to steal in order to pay his taxes acquitted. J1179.8
- Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) J2469.3
- Getting a box on the ears. The man, advised to cure his wife with a box on the ears, goes to the pharmacy and gets one. He cures his wife. J2494
- Cannibals advised to be absent while hero is being cooked; else he will not taste right. Hero escapes. K619.1
- Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) K827.1
- Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black. K1821.1
- Woman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuous. T253.2