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- Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
- Witches suck blood from the navel of a child without anyone knowing it. G262.1.3
- King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom. J711.3
- Men not chosen for their ignorance; else he should have reached heaven. Upbraided for not knowing answer to question, man answers that he was chosen for his position because of what he knew, not of what he did not know. J911.1
- How he shall be mourned. Women insist on knowing how a man wants to be mourned when he dies. "Mourn me as a man who was tormented by women talking foolishness." J1301
- Asking the large fish. Parents serve boy a small fish and keep back a large one for themselves. Knowing this, the boy puts the fish to his ear. He says that he has asked the fish a question; the fish cannot answer but tells him to ask the large fish under the bed. J1341.2
- Parrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language. K137.2
- Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" K1228
- Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) K1544
- Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. K1544.1
- Boy, posing as magician, agitates purported all-knowing pig's head in front of his enemies, identifying them as dishonest men. K1956.10
- Vow not to eat or drink before knowing if king is alive. M151.6
- What is in the dish: "Poor Crab". A sham wise man named Crab is put to a test of his powers of divination. He is to tell what is in a covered dish (crabs). In despair he says, "Poor Crab!" and is given credit for knowing. N688
- King unknowingly adopts his own lost son. N731.1.1
- Man knowing of murder plot against his friend disguises and is killed in his place. (Cf. P361.1.) P316.1
- Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer. S247
- Husband insists on knowing wife's secret. T258.1.1
- Wife insists upon knowing husband's secret. T258.2