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- Transformation by eating cabbage. D551.2.1
- Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
- What is the best fowl? The goose, since it makes the cabbage sweet and the bed soft. H659.4.1
- Meat fed to cabbages. J1856.1
- Lies about cabbages. X1423
- Lie: the great cabbage. (Usually matched by tale of great pot to put cabbage in.) X1423.1