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- Swine magically kept from fattening. D2089.3.1
- Louse fattened. F983.2
- Cannibal fattens victim. G82
- Test: guessing nature of certain skin – louse-skin. Louse (flea) is fattened and its skin made into coat (drum, etc.) H522.1.1
- Test: guessing origin of animal lungs. Lungs of fattened lizard are further inflated. H522.1.3
- Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.) H1072
- Fattening the pig. A farmer who wanted to fatten a pig fed it only twice a day. When told to feed it three times a day he says, "A working man must have more to eat than a pig." J1903.3
- "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him. K553
- "Wait till I am fat enough to race you." Hero to be eaten by cannibals when he is fattened enough to beat them in a race. He runs away. K553.0.1
- Girl fattened before wedding. T132.1
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