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- Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. A941.5.4
- Cuckoo delivers other birds from their cruel king: they agree to hatch out cuckoo's young. A2229.5
- Letter delivers self. (Cf. D1266.) D1601.32
- Spirit delivers false message. F402.1.9
- Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
- Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been. J2242
- Man contracts for load of hay on the road (without making any payment), orders the seller to deliver it at a certain inn. He then goes to the inn, sells the hay to the innkeeper, and pockets the money. The owner of the hay delivers it at the inn, tries to collect at the inn; the trickster absconds. K282.1
- Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. K1216
- Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
- Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers. K2115.0.1
- Dividing the winnings: presents (favors) from man's own wife. After the agreement to divide all winnings the first man receives favors (presents, kisses) from the second's wife. He faithfully delivers them. M241.2
- Goddess delivers and restores goods of man thrown into jail. R110.1