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- Devil as dog chews up Bibles, hymnbooks, church accounts in church. G303.24.5
- Not what you were but what you are counts. J312
- Man recounts unpleasant happening to king when in good humor and draws laugh; rest draw punishment. J823
- Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife. J2082
- The reckoning of the pot. A man counts the days of the fastmonth by throwing a pebble each day into a pot. His daughter throws a handful of pebbles in. Asked the day of the month, he says that it is the 125th. J2466.2
- "Cutting the paper of the accounts" (falsifying accounts). Fool cuts up account books. J2489.4
- Respite from death granted while wolf counts hairs in horse's tail. Wolf kicked to death. K551.19
- Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger. K933
- Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. L144.1
- Man pardoned for short accounts when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor as alms. Q44.2
- The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. He thus discovers that it is Sunday. Z24