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- Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. C815
- Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. C815.1
- Return from dead to give counsel. (Cf. V229.1.) E366
- Spirit gives counsel. F403.2.3.6
- Enigmatic counsels of a father. Taken literally bring trouble, but when properly interpreted are valuable. H588
- Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
- Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) H588.2
- Father's counsel: marry a new wife every week. (Do not see your wife too much.) H588.3
- Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
- Father's counsel: if you want to gamble, then gamble with experienced gamblers. (If you see how wretched professional gamblers are you will not want to gamble.) H588.5
- Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) H588.6
- Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) H588.7
- Father's counsel: the four wells. Three empty and one full (3 sons and father). Full one can fill the three empty but the three when full cannot fill the one when empty (sons when scattered will not support the father). H588.8
- Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down – not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). H588.9
- Father's counsel: don't stay too late with a concubine, nor tell her any secret. H588.10
- Enigmatic counsels of relatives (other than father). H596
- Enigmatic counsels of a brother. H596.1
- Enigmatic counsels of older brother. Gray younger brother asks well-preserved older brother for the secret of his good health. Answer: A measured mouth, a close purse, and a knot on the trouser's fly. H596.1.1
- Enigmatic counsel: uproot old trees and plant new ones (dismiss old governors and appoint new). H599.5
- Counsels proved wise by experience. J21