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- Origin of drunkenness. A1386
- The four characteristics of wine. Devil helps Noah plant vineyard and kills various animals over it. These illustrate the four qualities of wine. peacock: brilliant colors; ape: jokes; lion: boldness; hog: drunkenness. A2851
- Magic object cures drunkenness. D1511
- Magic carpet cures drunkenness. (Cf. D1155.) D1511.1
- Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
- King brought to sense of duty by woman's words. Drunken king sentences unjustly. Woman asks to appear before the king before he has dined. Her case is retried. J816.3
- The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership. J1211.2.1
- Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. J1289.12
- Repartee concerning drunkenness. J1320
- A drunkard cannot drown. A drunken man falls overboard but the skipper refuses to pick him up. "A man who is soaked in wine cannot drown. No part of his body will absorb water." J2282
- Drunken man insists that he be beheaded. Is struck with the flat of his sword. He thinks he is dead. J2311.10
- Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heaven. J2322
- Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. K314
- Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) K871.2
- Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again. K1132
- Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. K1321.3.1
- Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
- Drunken man by pretending to want to buy an elephant makes king think him rich. K1954.2
- The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him. K2322
- Woman wrongly condemned for drunkenness when seen to take one drink. N340.3