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- Tabu: landing on floating island of the gods without invitation. C93.8
- Tabu: accepting an invitation. C744
- Saint visits king of fairies on invitation of fairy king. Saint sprinkles holy water on fairy king, finds himself alone on hill. F379.4
- Symbolic invitation to continued liberality. H595.1
- Buffalo refuses tiger's invitation to dinner. He sees fire prepared to cook him. J425.2
- Fish refuse fox's invitation to live on dry land and thus escape danger of fishermen. J758.3
- Deceptive invitation to feast. J1577
- The bungling host. A trickster (animal) visits various animals who display their peculiar powers in obtaining food (often magic). He returns the invitation and tries to provide food in similar ways. He fails and usually has a narrow escape from death. (Cf. J2411.3.) J2425
- Customer takes invitation to buy as invitation to receive the goods free. K247
- Cruel king lured to enemy's power by invitation to false execution. He comes to see a girl die and is killed himself. K811.3
- Stingy man cancels invitations to his guests. "It is better that they speak ill of me on an empty stomach than on a full one." W152.9
- Deaf peasant: the wedding invitation. Lord: Good morning, Peter. Peasant: I come from Bingen. – L. What is the hog worth? – P. Two weeks from next Sunday (the wedding). – L. Shall I come to the wedding? – P. Three and a half gulden. X111.4