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- Magic object maintains quiet so that fugitive may escape. D1393.2
- Endurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pit. H1506
- Boast at home. In Castile a Spaniard maintains to a Portuguese that the Spanish king is best of all. In Portugal, that the Portuguese king is best. "Each cock crows in his own barnyard." J552.6
- Talkative man betrays his companion. When his faults are pointed out he maintains that he is better than his companion, who is immediately investigated. J2352
- The lamb without a heart. Accused of eating the lamb's heart, the thief maintains that it had no heart. K402
- The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
- The bird without a tail. Thief maintains that the bird had no tail. K402.2
- Why he beats her. Lazy wife beaten by husband maintains that she has done nothing. That is why he is beating her. W111.3.4