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- Tabu: buying, selling, etc. C780
- Tabu: buying. C781
- Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh. C781.1
- Task: buying a coin's worth of eggs and another of "ay, ay." Servant puts nettles in bag with eggs, and master cries "Ay, ay" when he touches the nettles. H1185.1
- Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crooked. K186
- Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1
- Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. K236.2
- Trickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond. K451.4
- Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. K478
- Butcher wonders that man who has been buying his meat for seven years can still be alive. X231