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- Tabu: counting possessions. C776
- Tabus concerning counting. C897
- Tabu: counting the stars. C897.1
- Task: counting hairs in pig's back (feathers in bird). H1118
- Task: counting the seeds in a package of mustard. H1118.1
- Task: counting daily how many leaves fall off a tree. H1118.2
- Task: counting palm trees within view of king's palace. H1118.3
- Task: counting the waves. H1144.2
- To give the accounting afterward. A nobleman embezzles money from the public treasury. When counsellors urge an accounting, he replies that he is ready as soon as they have themselves made an accounting of all their transactions. They are ready to let well enough alone. J1627
- Counting wrong by not counting oneself. Numskulls conclude that one of their number is drowned. J2031
- Thief of deer cuts it up and keeps counting pieces. Rescued by wife. J2136.5.3
- Devil is cheated by giving him task: counting the letters in the church Bible. He is unable to read the holy words. K211.1
- Counting out pay. Hole in the hat and hat over a pit. K275
- Criminal accidentally detected: "That is the first" – sleepy woman counting her yawns. Robber hearing her flees. (Cf. N612.) N611.2