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- Animal characteristics: punishment for planning man's downfall. A2236
- Monkeys planning to found a city desist lest with walls up it will be easier to catch them than before. J648.1
- Planning for the greater office. J703
- In planning future, profit by the past. J752
- The contagious yawns. A husband planning to punish his wife, who has yawned in church at the same time as a man, sees his error when his wife in the woods calls out, "The squirrels hop from bough to bough as the yawns from mouth to mouth." J1448
- The shoes carried into the tree. Tricksters induce a numskull to climb a tree, planning to steal his shoes. He takes them in his belt with him. "Perhaps I shall find a nearer road home up there and shall need my shoes." J1521.1
- Carpe diem. An abbot is planning to build a palace. The fool: "Why go to all that trouble? Just enjoy yourself with wine, women, and song." J2197
- Horse withheld as sacrifice to a saint refuses to move. The deceiver takes the horse to the church planning to remove him again, but the horse will not stir until a money equivalent has been paid. K231.3.4
- Captors deceived into believing captive is planning to stay with them: vigilance relaxed. Captured general orders heavy boxes taken into the temple. These are thought to be gold and it is concluded that he will not try to leave. He escapes. K536
- Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first. K1618
- Servant planning to possess his master's goods. Has already possessed his wife. P365.2
- Those planning to drown others drowned. Q581.3
- Father kisses son while planning to kill him. S11.4.2
- Father learns that his son is planning to kill him. Gives his son a weapon to do so. Son repents. S22.3
- The curious wife: wait and see. A man and his wife overhear thieves planning to rob the house, put the man out of the way, and have their will of the wife. The man wants to raise an alarm. She says, "Wait and see." T258.1