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- Dwarf cave has large square room with little doors leading to all sides. F451.4.3.2
- Test of unknown father: gold on street. Princess has gold put on street leading to her. The man who rides over the gold-covered street without noticing is the father of her child. H485
- When the sweet fails try the bitter. Man pleads with thief who is stealing his figs. When pleading fails he brings him down from tree with stones. (Cf. J1581.2, T251.5.) J1088
- Princess skillful in pleading. J1111.1.1
- Clever pleading. J1160
- Literal pleading: letter of law has been met. J1161
- Pound of flesh. (Fleischpfand.) Literal pleading frees man from pound of flesh contract. Contract does not give the right to shed blood. Impossible, therefore, to carry out. J1161.2
- Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
- Pleading for accused by means of parable. J1163
- Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
- Clever pleading – miscellaneous. J1169
- The Lord has departed. Maidservant on way to church on Palm Sunday meets priests leading ass on which Jesus rode. The maid runs home and tells her mistress that the Lord has mounted and has just gone away. J1823.1.3
- Hero keeps on leading his horse without discovering that it is dead. J2047
- Blind leading blind falls into pit. J2133.9
- Fool's errand. An apprentice, or newcomer or ignorant person, etc., is sent for absurd or misleading or nonexistent object or on a ridiculous quest. J2346
- The fee used up before the main question is reached. A man with an unsolved question seeks the help of a wit. The latter refuses to answer unless paid. He takes small fees for each easy question leading up to the principal question. Before reaching that point the fee is exhausted, and the question remains unanswered. K265
- To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up. K285
- Fox drinks the milk of a tiger's mate by giving her a misleading message. K362.5.1
- Hero walks backward to leave misleading trail. K534.3
- Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed. K1081.3