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- Miraculous increasing of small quantity of victuals or drinks to feed a great number of people. D1652.1.0.1
- Miraculous increasing of milk from one cow. (Cf. D1440.1, D2106.) D2156.2
- Task: bringing something ever-increasing (ambition); something ever-decreasing (life); something which neither increases nor decreases (one's fated lot); and something which both increases and decreases (universe). H1075
- Task: carrying ever-increasing burden up mountain. H1114.2
- Anger bargain: may God give you a penny. A servant and his mistress agree that when they are angry with each other they shall say, "May God give you a penny!" When the master says this, the servant says, "May he give you two!" They keep increasing the amount till those who hear wonder at the performance. The mistress tells them, "You don't know the coin." K172.1
- Rats cause cats to be killed. The rats unite and all go to houses together, increasing or decreasing their ravages with the increase or decrease in the number of cats. Thus the cats are suspected of the damage and are killed. K2172
- Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. T617.1