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- Helpful animal killed through misunderstanding. B331
- Faithful falcon killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn the king against drinking water poisoned by snake. B331.1
- Faithful horse killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn king against drinking water poisoned by snake. B331.1.1
- Task assigned from misunderstanding. H946
- Task assigned from misunderstanding: search for prince named Sabr ("wait"). H946.1
- Other misunderstandings of words. J1805
- Inappropriate action from misunderstanding. J1820
- Misunderstanding of church customs or ceremonies causes inappropriate action. J1823
- Misunderstandings concerning images of Christ. J1823.1
- Other misunderstandings of the communion. J1824.1
- Jumping into the river after their comrade. Through misunderstanding one of the men jumps into the river. He calls out; the others think that he wants them to follow, and all jump in and are drowned. J1832
- Useless surgical operation from misunderstanding. J1842
- Inappropriate action from misunderstanding – miscellaneous. J1849
- Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire. J2101
- Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own. J2496.2
- Criminal confesses because of misunderstanding of a dialect. N275.2
- Deaf husband orders deaf wife to prepare a certain dish: misunderstanding. X112
- Misunderstanding and quarrels in family of deaf. X113