• Forming of the nose. Nose was made from clay taken from the posterior of the already created man. A1316.1.1
• Cotton at first already spun into threads. A1346.2.1
• Faithful horse refuses to go before its master mounts it, even when already loaded with two chests with gold. B301.4.6
• The musician in the wolf-trap: meets wolf already trapped, and saves himself by playing music. (Cf. K551.3.1.) B848.1
• Transformation: man to other animals than those already treated. D199
• Transformation: other animals than those already treated to person. D399
• Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking to partake in booty of hunt. This booty is the same kind as the hunt has already thrown down. (Cf. E501.18.2.) E501.19.4
• One traveler to another: That field (uncut) is already harvested. (Belongs to spendthrift who has already spent the money.) H586.4
• Riddle: the father not yet born, the son already at the top of the house. (Flame and smoke.) H763
• Quest for ornament (jewel, etc.) to match one already at hand. H1317
• Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed. J311.1
• Young crow's alertness. Crow advises young ones to fly away if they see man stooping for a stone to throw. Young crows: "What if he already has stone in hand?" J1122.1
• The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
• Dividing five eggs equally between two men and one woman. Three to the woman and one each to the men. Men already have two (testicles). J1249.1
• Softening bread-crusts. An avaricious master feeds bread-crusts to his servants. "The crusts are already getting soft." J1341.1
• God as surety; the abbot pays. A young man is ransomed by giving God as surety for the ransom money. He fails to return as agreed. The creditor sees a wealthy abbot, who says that he is a servant of God. He robs the abbot and when the young man finally appears he tells the latter than the debt is already paid by God's servant. J1559.2
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
• Rowing contest won by deception. The boat is already sawed through. K14
• Contest: jumping into the ground. A hole is already dug and covered with boughs. K17.1

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