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- Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms. A1713
- Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes. J581.5
- Diving for reflected fruit. Meantime rascal steals the fruit itself. J1791.11
- Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese. J2173.2
- The bird boasts about capturing the rabbit. Meantime other birds eat the rabbit. J2173.3
- Bureaucrats debate as to who shall put out palace fire: meantime palace burns. J2532
- Thieving contest: first steals eggs from under bird; second meantime steals first's breeches. K305.1
- Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen. K337
- Thief persuades owner of goods to dive for treasure. Meantime robs him. K341.4
- Animal's cry imitated to distract owner's attention from his goods. Meantime rascal steals an animal. K341.7
- Thief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goods. K343
- Innkeeper deceived into going under the floor of the granary; meantime robbed. K343.0.1
- Bread dropped in mud; messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man's servant and gets a sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is to go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread. K343.1.1
- Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
- Trickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it. K348
- Dupe persuaded to fight with alleged gold-dropping bear: trickster meantime steals his clothes. K1252.1
- Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown. K1955.5
- Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he be killed in a fight. He breaks his leg and cannot take part. Meantime the king learns of his innocence. N178.1
- Hospitality enforced on hero keeps him overlong from home; meantime wife abducted. N391.0.1