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- Wethers leap from well; payment for saint's baptism. B184.6.1
- Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed. B259.1
- Magic object returned in payment for removal of magic horns. (Cf. D881.1). D895
- Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
- Ghost seeks repayment of stolen money. E236.8
- Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse. E341.1
- Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
- Tasks assigned as payment of gambling loss. (Cf. H1219.1.) H942
- Quest assigned as payment for gambling loss. (Cf. H942.) H1219.1
- Quest assigned as payment for magic object. H1219.1.1
- Quest assigned as payment for hospitality. H1219.7
- Payment with the clink of the money. Man sued for payment for enjoyment of the flavor of meat when roasting. J1172.2
- Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
- Imaginary debt and payment. J1551
- Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
- Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid. J1551.8
- Too large a payment. A student leaving the university sends back a small coin to pay for the knowledge he is carrying away, although he says that he is really paying too much. J1559.3
- Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." J2489.10
- Trickster persuades dupe to sacrifice animal and give it to him as payment for supposed services. K158
- Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1