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- Nature and meaning of animal cries. A2426
- Meaning of swallow's song. A2426.2.12
- Origin and meaning of cock's cry "cock-a-doodle-do". A2426.2.18
- The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed. C651
- "Love like wind in hot sun." Husband offended but later learns wife's meaning. H592.1.1
- Symbolic meaning of numbers, letters, etc. H602
- Symbolic meaning of numbers. H602.1
- Symbolic meaning of numbers one to seven (ten, twelve). E.g. One: sun; two: Moses' tablets; three: three Maries; etc. H602.1.1
- Symbolic meaning of spiced and bitter tongue served at dinner. (Cf. H605, H606.) H604
- Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
- By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. K232.1
- Ogam inscription on shield orders that bearer (who does not know meaning) shall be killed. Poet (who recognizes the meaning) reports to king that inscription means a request for honorable treatment. K511.2
- Man playing ghost killed. Meaning to frighten son, father plays devil or a ghost. Son kills him. N384.10
- Futile attempt to explain to a blind man meaning of "white". U173