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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
- Prince invites angel to wedding. Taken to other world. C13.1
- Dance with the dead. Girl invites dead to come from grave and dance with her. Difficult escape. E238.1
- 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 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
- Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
- Cannot leave court of God: reply of saint when king invites him to court. J1269.13
- Not in good form. A duke invites a notorious eater. The latter consumes eight fowls, forty eggs, and other things in proportion. In leaving he apologizes for eating so little as he had not felt well the night before. He will do better next time. J1468
- Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
- Ass's charter in his hoof. The ass absents himself from the parliament of beasts. The lion sends the fox and the wolf to summon him. He pleads his charter of exemption and invites the fox to read it in his hoof. (Cf. K551.18.) J1608
- The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps away. The bed is searched and the louse killed. J2137.1
- Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. K778.1
- Spider invites wasp (fly) to rest on her "white curtain". Eats her. K815.2
- Cat invites hens to a feast and kills them. K815.4
- Owl invites cricket to share his nectar. Kills him. K815.5