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- Origin of mining. A1448
- Mining spirit: "Bluecap." F456.2
- Mining spirit: "Cutty Soams". F456.3
- Physician, by examining wound can tell whether it was inflicted by a man or a woman and describe him or her in detail. F956.4
- Test of valor: rousing servant's anger. Nobleman, when examining servants for hire, bids each stand before him and comb his long beard. Occasionally he snaps at them as if to bite them. Those who dodge he lets go; those who offer fight he employs. H1561.4
- Examining the sundial by candle-light. Numskull tries to find the time of night. J1943
- Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4