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- Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
- Town where everything is sold at one price. F769.1
- Large price exacted for curing ogre after wounding him. G682
- Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
- Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
- In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
- The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
- Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
- The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
- Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence. J1211.2
- Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
- The cost price recovered. A man takes a shirt to market for a friend who has stolen it. At market it is stolen from the seller. He tells his friend that the market was bad and that he was able to get back only the cost price (nothing). J1397
- Overheard conversation: "Mustard has advanced in price." Thieves steal mustard and leave all else. J1517.1
- Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave. J1522.1
- The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. J1604
- Numskulls buy things in common: each pays full price. J2037
- Numskulls buy church in common: each pays full price. J2037.1
- Three brothers buy cow for common use; each brother pays the farmer full price. J2037.2
- One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
- Two for the price of one. The fool sells two fox-skins pulled into each other. J2083.2