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- Tribe climbs down from sky to earth. A1631.2
- Giant hacked so that a staircase is made up his body. Hero climbs up and kills him. G154
- The ladder market. A thief climbs over a wall by means of his ladder. When caught in the garden he says that he is a seller of ladders. Owner: "Is this a ladder market?" "Can't one sell ladders everywhere?" J1391.2
- What the bear whispered in his ear. Paid guide climbs tree and leaves traveler to mercy of a bear. Traveler feigns death and the bear sniffs at him and leaves. The guide: "What did the bear say to you?" "He said, never trust a coward like you." J1488
- Helping the cuckoo. A numskull climbs a tree to help a cuckoo so that he may call louder than the one in the neighboring forest. Meanwhile his horse is eaten by a wolf. J1872.1
- Literal fool: fool told to follow his nose in a journey, runs head against tree, climbs it. J2461.6
- Monkey cheats fox of his share of bananas. Climbs on a tree and tosses peelings down upon fox. K171.9
- Owner of horse climbs tree after thief, who drops down and rides off on owner's horse. K341.4.1.1
- Respite from death until hero climbs tree. He flies away in machine stored there. K551.24
- Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back. K652
- The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
- To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards. T46.1
- Lie: cow climbs to roof. X1235.4