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- Inhabitants of heaven divided into companies. A661.1.1
- Moon stolen and divided into quarters. A755.4.2
- Why grain of wheat is divided. A2793.2
- Apple divided and eaten as love charm. (Cf. D1355.7.) D1905.2
- River with flow magically divided. (Part stands still, rest flows.) D2151.2.1.1
- Otherworld island divided into four parts. F134.3
- Identification by matching parts of divided token. H100
- Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
- The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
- Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. J1171.2
- Hog's head divided according to scripture. To be divided among three students according to their skill in quoting. First: "And they cut one ear off" (takes ear). Second: "And they gave him a box on the ear" (takes other ear). Third: "And they took him away secretly" (takes whole hog away). J1242.1
- Inherited gold ring divided between three by selling it and dividing the money. J1243
- Divided ownership of cow. The brother who owns the front end tries to drive the cow and will not let the owner of the rear end milk her. J1905.3
- Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
- King's son comes home just at his father's funeral, when the heritage has to be divided. N699.2
- Wolf as commander orders all booty divided, but keeps his own. U37