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- Discourteous answer: tortoise's shell. Zeus celebrates a wedding and invites the animals. Tortoise is late. Why? "I like my house." "May you bear your house always." (Cf. A2312.1.) A2231.1.4
- The cat as vixen's husband. Frightens the other wild animals invited by the vixen. (Cf. K2324.) B281.9.1
- Wedding of turkey and peacock. All birds invited except eagle. This omission starts great conflict. B282.1
- The offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world. C13
- Prince invites angel to wedding. Taken to other world. C13.1
- Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.) C682
- Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world. E238
- Dance with the dead. Girl invites dead to come from grave and dance with her. Difficult escape. E238.1
- Dead children invited to eat at God's table. E754.2.4
- Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. F361.1.1
- Fairy kills man who refuses his hospitality. Man refuses to visit fairy after being invited. (Cf. F361.15.) F361.17.7
- One giant invites another to a feast (wedding). Latter must be satisfied that food is plentiful. F531.6.8.4.1
- Devil (gentleman) invites traveler into his wagon. Explains that his horses are Earl X, etc. (Cf. G303.25.17.1.) G303.7.1.2.2
- Devil (gentleman) invites girls into his sleigh. G303.7.1.2.3
- Devil rides away on an ass. Angered because God has not invited him to his wedding. G303.7.2
- Man marries a she-devil He catches her as succubus and marries. Some years later his wife's brothers invite them to a feast (wedding) and he gets gifts or wife's dowry. G303.12.6.1
- Devil as gentleman invites a traveler to the feast (wedding). (Cf. G303.7.1.2.2.) G303.25.17.1
- Clam shell invites man down into sea so he can be eaten. G308.7
- Ogress invites boys to live in her house. G414
- Outcast wife (children) builds castle identical with king's, invites him, and is recognized. H153