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- Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them. A1225.2
- Beetle demands return of gold from God: must hum. In his overweening pride he hits fence and ever afterward has hummed. (Cf. A2426.3.1.) A2231.11
- Tabu: bathing without straining stream afterwards. C721.3
- Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterward. F1038.1
- Robbers persuaded to give hero sword with which they are afterwards killed. J642.2
- Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
- Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled. J1564.2
- 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
- Miser induced to thrust his head into bag; noose pulled by thief afterwards. K711.2.1
- Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellor. K959.2.4
- Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. K1353
- King mourns so much at wife's death that he goes on piracy, (every summer afterward). P27.2
- Young man betrothed to statue. Man puts marriage ring on finger of statue of Venus (Virgin Mary). She afterwards forbids him the embraces of an earthly bride. T376
- Nun hidden by abbess from pursuing knight betrays her own hiding place to him. Is afterwards abandoned. V465.1.2.1
- The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." X111.13