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- Certain stones are cheeses transformed by saint. (Cf. A974.) A977.5.1
- Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
- Transformation: cheese to stone. D471.4
- Bone-powder changed into cheese. D476.1.10
- Magic cheese. D1036.1
- Ever-renewing cheese. (Cf. D1036.1.) D1652.1.4
- Ordeal by bread and cheese. Declaration: if I am not innocent may I choke on bread and cheese. H232
- Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
- Quest for cheese made from milk of wild white buffaloes. (Cf. H1362.1.) H1361.6
- Diving for cheese. Man (animal) sees moon reflected in water and, thinking it a cheese, dives for it. J1791.3
- Wolf tries to drink well dry to get cheese. J1791.3.1
- Cheeses thrown down to find their way home. J1881.1.1
- One cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it back. J1881.1.2
- Numskull tries to hatch out a calf from a cheese. J1902.2
- Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow. J1932.2
- The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese. J2103.1
- Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese. J2173.2
- Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come. J2214.3
- Numskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theft. J2318
- Buyer draws picture of grindstone on his order list. The grocer sends him a cheese. The buyer has forgotten to draw the hole. J2685
Tale types
- ATU 1291 One Cheese Sent to Bring Back Another
- ATU 1336 Diving for Cheese
- ATU 1452 Thrifty Cutting of Cheese
- ATU 1892* Wolf Made into Cheese
- ATU 1932 Church Built of Cheese
- ATU 34 The Wolf Dives into the Water for Reflected Cheese
- ATU 51*** The Fox as Umpire to Divide Cheese
- ATU 57 Raven with Cheese in his Mouth