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- Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
- Holy water procures fire or light. (Cf. V132.) D1566.1.7
- Wife goes to land of dead to procure dead husband's heart. F81.1.1
- Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands. F451.3.2.1.2
- Fox (in man's form) betrays identity when he procures fox-food for human wife. H48.2
- Fools sent to buy cow procure a monkey instead. J2081.4
- A snake for the real daughter. Stepdaughter, married to a snake, appears decorated with jewels. Stepmother desires a snake be procured for her daughter. She is swallowed instead. J2415.7
- Escape from captor by throwing objects to great distance which captor tries to procure. K622.2
- Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. K1020
- The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
- The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
- Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. K1683
- Trickster purports to be deity's messenger to procure demon-skins for his drum. Demons bribe him instead of devouring him. K1715.9
- Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger. K1810.2
- The one of two giant brothers who performs the greatest feat and procures the wildest dog elected as king. P11.2.2.1
- King must procure whatever visiting poets ask, or suffer from their satire. P19.3
- Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars. S263.6
- Mother acts as procuress of bedmate for her son. T452.1
- Magic elixir to procure a child. T548.3
- Weapons and horses procured for boy at his birth. T602