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- Why the guinea fowl has red feet. Cheated and could not stand the ordeal of hot oil poured on his feet. A2375.2.10
- Magic root reveals truth when water is poured over it. (Cf. D967.) D1316.12
- Oil poured in left ear of black dog brings rain. (Cf. D1242.2.) D1542.1.6
- Water poured from saint's bell produces fountain. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1567.3
- Tree grateful for having milk poured on roots. D1658.1.5.2
- Seeds of poppy poured into revenant's mouth. E439.4
- Bird, reincarnated murdered girl, resumes her original form when persecutor's blood is poured on her. E696.1
- Milk poured into stream as signal. H135.2
- Sham-dead person tested by hot lead poured on hand. H248.1
- The wine needs no further water. Guests asks small daughter of innkeeper for water to put into his wine. She says, "You will not have to do that for mother poured a whole tubful into the cask today." J125.1
- A two-headed man is only one man. Two-headed man claims double inheritance. Hot water poured over one head. Other head cries out with pain. He is declared to be one man and to merit only one share. J1176.4
- Heating water for woman to wash in. Boiling water poured over her. J2465.4.1
- Earthen pot with rice water on top of which clarified butter had been poured sold as a pot of clarified butter. K144.2
- Deceptive bargain: as much gold in reward as sticks to poet's hair when poured over him: he smears it with tar. K199.1
- Milk bought on credit poured into one container. The trickster buys it from various women. After it is all poured together he says that each may have her own back. K231.6.1
- Saint who desires broth containing no butter receives broth into which butter has been poured surreptitiously through hollow mixing-stick. (Cf. K498.) K499.2.1
- Saint who desires pottage of nettles containing no milk receives pottage into which milk has been poured surreptitiously through pipe. The secret is revealed, and the saint blesses the cook's successors. K499.2.2
- Murder by hot lead poured into ear. (Cf. S115.1.) S112.3
- Libations. Drink poured out to the gods. V12.9