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- Origin of goldsmith work. A1447.3
- Whatever goldsmith proposes to make comes into existence by itself in the forge. D2178.7
- Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
- Asking costs nothing. So says beggar who asks goldsmith to plate his club with gold. J1338
- Goldsmith sells thinly plated gold; peasant retaliates: a pot of dirt with a little gyav on top. (Cf. J1556.1.) J1511.20
- Fool tries to purify cotton by burning it (as the goldsmith does with gold). J1974
- 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
- The price of a lump of gold. A trickster asks a goldsmith what he would pay for a lump of gold of a certain size. Believing that the man has such a lump, the goldsmith pays him a large sum. K261
- Fox drops goldsmith's child to get him away from gold bench he is working on and thus steal gold. K341.25
- Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. K419.7
- Treacherous goldsmith. K2249.3
- Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody). L363
- Goldsmith unlucky. N256.1
- Goldsmith as lover. P447.7
- Covetous goldsmith. P447.8