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- Punishment for broken tabu: good money turns to counterfeit. C939.2
- Ghost appears at time of death, foils lawyer who is counterfeiting a will for the newly-deceased. E236.4.1
- Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
- Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. J1931
- False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money. K476.4
- Prostitute paid with counterfeit money. K1581.11
- Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Q414.0.6.1