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- Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
- Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
- "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
- Noble woman given to foreigners on condition that thereafter their land be held by female right. P61
- Social status of foreigners. P191
- Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites. P231.7
- Foreigner may not bring suit. (Cf. P191.) P523.1
- Foreigner may not act as security. (Cf. P191.) P524.2
- Tribute required of conquered foreigners. P531.1.1
- Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) T642
- Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed. X332
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