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- Why mice eat grease and salmon. A2435.3.7.1
- Transformation: ice becomes grease. D476.1.9
- Disenchantment by rubbing with magic grease. D771.2
- Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull. H412.2
- "Thief has grease from stolen fowl on him": thief begins to feel his beard and is detected. J1141.1.2
- An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
- Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
- Secret meat-eating betrayed by grease on mouth. N478.1
- Lie: skating with bacon to grease griddle in big kitchen. X1031.4.1
- Lie: goat carries one hundred cartloads of grease. X1244.1
- The house the old man was to build. The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea .... sea – shirt – washerwoman – soap – woman – wood – press – grease – herder – cheese – frame – fig – tree – horn – goat – beans. Z44.1