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- Water-spirits have likings and occupations like human beings. F420.3.2
- The liking for food and drink. J1343
- Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
- Fool liking salt decides to eat nothing else. J2524
- Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. K1691.2