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- Tabu: Saora women not to wear gold earrings. C181.9
- Live-bird earrings. F827.1
- Recognition by earrings. H94.11
- Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
- Woman promises marriage for pair of earrings: she escapes with them. K233.8
- After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1