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- Stag's horns borrowed from dog. (Cf. A2326.1.1.) A2241.1
- Owl's wings borrowed from rat (or other animal). A2241.2
- Partridge's voice borrowed from tortoise. A2241.3
- Where horse got his upper teeth. Borrowed them from buffalo. (Cf. A2241.) A2345.1
- Where Jahrvogel (rhytidoceros) got its necklace. Borrowed form dove. (Cf. A2241.) A2351.3
- How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241). A2421.4
- Eyes borrowed by animal. Later returned. E781.3
- Stomach borrowed by animal. Later returned. E787
- Kettle borrowed from fairies and not returned. (Cf. F343.17.) F353
- Money borrowed from the fairies and not returned on time. F358
- Animals borrowed by fairies. F391.1
- King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.) H583.4.2
- Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
- Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2
- Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him. J1173
- Tournament won by deception on borrowed horse. K28
- Refusal to return borrowed goods. K232
- By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. K232.1
- One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained. K232.2
- Crab demands seven patas as payment for four patas of paddy frog has borrowed. K255.2