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- 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
- Adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.) K1516.5
- Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage. K1917.8
- Prince's arrow accidentally grazes breast of merchant's wife. N331.1.2
- Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed in jungle. T91.6.3.1