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- Devil as merchant. G303.3.1.19
- Arrested man tells who he is: the hospitable fire of his father is sought (bean merchant). H581.2
- Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
- Ruler learns lesson from the example of an exiled king. Rewards the exile rather than a successful merchant. J55
- Rich merchant is poorer in happiness than poor man. J347.4
- Clever merchant. J1115.7
- Clever merchant profits by being robbed. Monkeys steal his caps. Traps monkeys and sells them. J1115.7.1
- Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. J1179.5
- Needles and anchors. Fox leaving merchant's warehouse: "I had wanted a needle as big as an anchor and an anchor as small as a needle." J1391.8
- Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
- Sticking to the rules. Merchant at inn deprives monk of fowl. "It's against the rules of your order." Later the monk undertakes to help merchant across stream. In the middle of the stream he asks the merchant if he has any money. "Yes." The monk drops him in the water. "It's against the rules of our order to have any money on us." J1638
- Banker able to recognize honest merchant by a single hair of his mustache. J1661.1.9
- The interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reached. J2035
- Fool's talking causes himself and companions to be robbed. Thieves stumble over him as he lies on the ground. "What is this, a log?" The fool: "Does a log have five annas in its pocket?" When they have robbed him he says, "Ask the merchant in the tree if my money is good." They rob the merchant. J2356
- The numskull buys water at market. He looks at bread. The merchant: "It is as good as butter." He decides on butter. The merchant: "It is as sweet as oil." He decides on oil. The merchant: "It is as clear as water." He decides on water. J2478
- Merchant buys the same article several times from the same or different seller. K258.2
- Theft by disguise as merchant (or peddler). K311.14
- Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
- Trickster sells mother's wine to merchant without asking her permission. Mother saves part of wine because purchaser is dilatory in removing casks. K499.1
- Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. K775