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- Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky. C31.1.5
- Wild hunt harmful to the curious. E501.18.1.3
- Why the black clothes. A man goes forth in black clothes. People are curious as to the reason. "I am wearing mourning for the father of my son." J1304
- Overcurious wife learns of the senate's deliberations. Husband (son) tells her that they have decided that each man may have many wives. Gullible wife believes it. J1546
- What will the robber do? A man curious as to what a robber is going to do waits to intervene and goes back to sleep. J2378
- Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriage. K443.6.1
- Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed. K814
- The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". K1555.2
- The curious wife. T258
- The curious wife: wait and see. A man and his wife overhear thieves planning to rob the house, put the man out of the way, and have their will of the wife. The man wants to raise an alarm. She says, "Wait and see." T258.1