• Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant. A11.1
• Origin of distilling. Learned from devil. (Cf. A1427.2.) A1456
• How people learned about calculating time and the seasons. A1485
• Burial learned from watching raven bury its dead. A1591.1
• Animal characteristics learned from another animal. A2271
• How bird learned to build nest. A2431.1
• Fortune learned from serpent. B161.2
• Animal languages learned from animal. B165
• Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) B165.1
• Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.) B165.1.1
• Animal languages learned from frog. B165.2
• Animal language learned. B217
• Animal languages learned from eating animal. B217.1
• Animal languages learned from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.) B217.1.1
• Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart. B217.1.2
• Animal languages learned from eating plant. B217.2
• Animal languages learned from ghosts (spirits). B217.3
• Animal languages learned from carrying churchyard mould in hat. B217.4
• Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed. B217.5
• Animal languages learned by exchanging tongues with helpful dragon. B217.6

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• ATU 1628 The Learned Son and the Forgotten Language
• ATU 276 The Crab Walks Backward: Learned from his Parents
• ATU 425D The Vanished Husband (previously Vanished Husband Learned of by Keeping Inn (Bath-house)
• ATU 517 The Boy who Understands the Language of Birds (previously The Boy who Learned Many Things)