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- Culture hero arrives (and departs) in boat. A513.2
- Animal who arrives late performs tasks for man. (Cf. L147.1.) B571.2
- Husband's (wife's) willingness to die for mate disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5
- Old woman's willingness to die for daughter disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5.1
- Family do not realize that Lent has arrived until it is Palm Sunday. Then they explain that Lent will be short because it has been a short winter. J1743.2
- The archbishop's wife and family. Fool asks what he is to talk about when guests arrive. Is told: "Their wives and family." He asks the archbishop about his family. (Cf. J2461.2.) J1747
- Spinning wheel is sent home by itself. The man asks his wife if it has arrived before him, finds that it has not. "I thought not. I came a shorter way." J1881.1.5
- Obedient husband walks slowly. Arrives home after dawn when wife's lover has gone. J2523.2
- The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
- Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. K455.7
- Respite from death while one plays the fiddle. Rescue arrives. K551.3.1
- Respite from death while captive plays music (whistles). Rescue arrives. K551.3.2
- Three cries allowed maiden about to be murdered. Rescue arrives. K551.3.3
- Wild boar given permission to squeal before wolf eats him. Rescue arrives. K551.3.4
- Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. K869.4
- Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
- Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
- Decision left to first person to arrive. M92
- Treasure seekers find hole from which treasure has recently been removed. (Often they have delayed searching for one reason or another, arrive too late.) N563
- Husband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their home. N658