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- What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) A2236.1
- Helpful animal recovers magic food-producing skin from river bottom. B531.3
- Fish recovers ring from sea. B548.2.1
- Fish recovers key from sea. B548.2.2
- Frog recovers keys from sea. B548.2.2.1
- Duck recovers lost key from sea. B548.2.2.2
- Fish recovers lost fish-hook from sea. B548.2.3
- Fish recovers pen from sea. B548.2.4
- Fish recovers lost urn from sea. B548.2.5
- Frog recovers Sacred Host from water. B548.5
- Helpful animal discovers jewel. B562.1.0.1
- Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
- Magic object acquired by trick exchange. By means of second magic object hero recovers first. (Often mixed with D832). D831
- Arrow shot into air discovers iron pit. D1314.1.6
- Saint's bachall discovers gold. (Cf. D1277.) D1314.3
- Druid by magic discovers whereabouts of abducted wife. (Cf. F322.2.) D1816.5.1
- Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.) D2064.2
- Witch burns her child's legs for wood, then covers child with sheet and child is whole. D2161.3.3.1
- Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. F361.2.1
- Giant with one eye in the neck which he covers with his lower lip. F531.1.1.1.1
Tale types
- ATU 1358C Trickster Discovers Adultery: Food Goes to Husband Instead of Lover [K1571]
- ATU 1424* Wife Recovers What her Husband First Found and then Lost
- ATU 873 The King Discovers his Unknown Son
- ATU 891A Crystal Palace (previously The Princess from the Tower Recovers her Husband)
- ATU 938* Master Discovers that the Slave Girl he Wants to Marry is a Near Relative [T410
- ATU 956D How a Young Woman Saves herself when she Discovers a Robber under her Bed
- ATU 961 Conqueror of Robber Discovers his Money-stick