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- Magic grapes cause horns to grow on person. (Cf. D981.8.) D1375.1.1.8
- Speaking grapes. (Cf. D981.8.) D1610.10.1
- Extraordinary grapes. F813.2
- Clusters of diamond and emerald grapes. F813.2.1
- Gigantic grapes. F813.2.2
- Contest in lifelike painting: grapes and curtain. First artist paints a bunch of grapes so realistically that it attracts the birds. The second artist paints a curtain which deceives the first artist. He wins. H504.1.3
- Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
- Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. (Stork took bunch of grapes to nest; boy makes wine from them.) H806
- The fox and the sour grapes. Pretends that the grapes he cannot reach are sour. J871
- The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. U18
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