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- Origin of pearls. A2827
- Magic tortoise fed with salt gives pearls. B103.1.6
- Deer with string of pearls around its neck. B105.2
- Magic spider catches pearls. B109.1
- Swans live on pearls. B768.3
- Transformation: peas to pearls. D475.4.4
- Magic tortoise shell produces pearls. (Cf. D1029.6.) D1469.14
- Magic pearls cure disease. D1500.1.9.2
- Fairy's tears pearls. F239.6
- Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
- Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
- Island of pearls. F731.6
- Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
- Animals live on pearls. F989.22.4
- Recognition by ability to shed pearls for tears. H31.7.1
- Pearls from hair as sign of royalty. H71.3
- Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
- Quest for unpierced pearls. H1348.2
- The cock and the pearl: prefers a single corn to a peck of pearls. J1061.1
- Impossible to eat pearls: also impossible for woman to bear animals (objects). J1191.5.1