• Size and arrangements of hell. A671.0.5
• Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies. A703
• Topographical features of the earth arranged by creator. (Cf. A0.) A902
• Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. A1310
• Misplaced genitalia. Originally genitals are misplaced. They are properly arranged by the culture hero. A1313.3
• Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time. A1372.7
• Origin of seating arrangements in royal hall. A1539.1
• Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) E30
• Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. G303.25.17.3
• Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals. H161
• Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
• Monotony of restriction to one's favorite food. Counselor refuses to arrange extramarital pleasures for his lord. Ruler feeds him only his favorite food until the counselor protests the monotony. Ruler drives home his point. J81.0.1
• Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) J1517
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Tidings brought to the king: You said it, not I. The messenger arranges it so that the king says the words in the form of a question. J1675.2.1
• Abbot gives king unique concert. Separates hogs into tenors, bassos, etc. So arranges them that when he pricks them they render a tune. J1675.5
• Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.) J1741.3
• Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
• Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter. K512
• Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4

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