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- Poppy characteristics from series of reincarnations. Opium produces each of the appropriate qualities. A2733
- Animals grateful for being given appropriate food. Hero finds dog with hay and horse with meat. He changes it about. B392.1
- Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
- To each his appropriate food. Woman gives morsel of various foods to each guest, with explanation. J81.2
- Inappropriate entertainment repaid. J1565
- Inappropriate action from misunderstanding. J1820
- Misunderstanding of church customs or ceremonies causes inappropriate action. J1823
- Inappropriate action from misunderstanding – miscellaneous. J1849
- Fool believes realistic story. Inappropriate action. J1849.1
- King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds. J1873.4
- Fool's talking to himself thought to be inappropriate greetings. He keeps repeating a word to remember it but changes it so that it seems to refer unfavorably to people whom he meets. J2671.2.1
- By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. K232.1
- Goods misappropriated. K254
- Trickster asks hospitality: expels owner and appropriates house. K354
- Partner misappropriates common goods. K364
- Egg as reward of appropriate saying. First brother (knocking egg against wall): "Casca cascorum." Second (breaking shell and sprinkling dirt over it): "Sar, sale, sapiensa". Third (eating egg): "Consumatus es." K444.1
- Unjust umpire misappropriates disputed goods. K452
- Sham traveler. Boasts falsely of voyage and receives canoes which he appropriates. K1969.1
- Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days. W181.4