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- Appearance of animal from marking or painting. A2217
- Painting on wife's stomach as chastity index. H439.1.1
- Contest in lifelike painting. H504.1
- Contest in lifelike painting: fly on saint's nose. Second artist in first artist's absence paints a fly on a saint's nose in a picture. On his return the first artist tries to drive away the fly. H504.1.1
- Contest in lifelike painting: mare and curtain. First artist paints a mare so realistic as to deceive a stallion. Second paints a curtain which deceives the first artist. H504.1.2
- Contest in lifelike painting: grapes and curtain. First artist paints a bunch of grapes so realistically that it attracts the birds. The second artist paints a curtain which deceives the first artist. He wins. H504.1.3
- Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape. K521.3
- "Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it. K1013.2
- "Painting" with a red hot iron. K1013.3
- Lighting the road (or painting the house red). The house set on fire. K1412
- Disguise by painting body. K1821.2
- Sham miracle. Priest makes congregation believe the painting of the Virgin weeps real tears. K1972.2
- Lie: the realistic painting. (Cf. H504.1.) X1788