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- King of geese. B242.2.9
- Animal journeys to Rome. Cock, geese, or dog go to Rome to become Pope. B296.1
- Cackling geese spread alarm. B521.3.2
- Boat drawn by swans (geese). B558.1
- Parts of bears fall off and become geese. D411.10.1
- Transformation: flock of geese to stone. D423.1.1
- Dwarfs chatter like geese. F451.3.13.2.1
- Geese tell of beauty of their mistress and bring about recognition. H151.12
- King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
- Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer. H1382.1
- Fox about to be hanged asks to be allowed to see geese. (Cf. J2174.) J864.2
- Are there nine or ten geese? Ten men are called in; each is to take a goose. If all have a goose, there are ten. One man is left without one. Numskull: "You should have taken one before they were all gone." J2032
- The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
- Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster. K476.6
- Lies about geese. X1258
- Lie: man carried through air by geese. X1258.1
- Hawk flies away with geese on a line. They have been tied together as a protection. X1267.1
- The Twelve Days (Gifts) of Christmas: 1 partridge, 2 turtle-doves, 3 French hens, 4 colly birds, 5 gold rings, 6 geese, 7 swans, 8 maids, 9 drummers, 10 pipers, 11 ladies, 12 lords. Z22.1