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- Tabu: eating before three years have passed. C231.6
- Nature fruitless if false judgment is passed. H243
- How many seconds in eternity? A bird carries a grain of sand from a mountain each century; when the whole mountain is gone, the first second of eternity has passed. (Cf. D791.1.2, H1583, X950.2, Z61.) H701.1
- Riddle: how many days have passed since the time of Adam? H706
- How many days have passed since the time of Adam? The seven days of the week. H706.1
- Land measured according to amount encompassed during certain hours. H1584.2
- Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed. J311.1
- Association of rat with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. The rat threatened by the weasel and the owl allies himself with a cat caught in a net. Saved by the cat, he rescues the cat with precaution and then prudently renounces further relations with her. J426
- Association of mouse with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. J426.1
- Hidden stag discovered when he begins to eat grapevine too soon after hunters have passed. J582.2
- Confession obtained by making thief fear for his life. (Told that crossbow would shoot guilty person as he passed before it.) J1141.10
- Deduction: the one-eyed camel. A she-camel has passed, blind in one eye; on the one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar; two men lead her, one a heathen and the other a Jew. Solution: She is recognized as a she-camel by the footprints; she is blind because she feeds on only one side of the road; the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth; the vinegar makes bubbles; the heathen is not so careful in his manners as is the Jew. J1661.1.1
- The moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over it. J2328
- Fool passed off as very eligible young man by matchmaker. K1372.2
- Self-righteous woman punished. She has passed judgment on a girl who has a bastard. L435.2
- King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Q520.4
- Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap. S139.2.2.8
- Architect kills pupil who has surpassed him in skill. W181.2.1
- Architect commits suicide when he discovers that his pupil has surpassed him in skill. W181.2.2