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- Unwelcome bird (insect) proves to be messenger. B291.0.2
- Dead brother reproves sister's pride. E226.1
- Devil marries old maid who proves to be a termagant and a miser. G303.12.3
- Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence. H215
- Of three friends the least loved proves true in emergency. H1558.1.1
- Solomon proves to his mother the inferiority of woman's wisdom. J80.1.1
- Pomegranate and apple tree dispute as to which is worth most. Blackberry reproves them for useless jangling. J466.1
- Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
- King improves kingdom before leaving it to his sons. He leaves it smaller but much stronger and richer. J701.2
- Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
- "Do as I say and not as I do." Doctor forbids patient to drink wine. When patient reproves doctor for drinking wine the latter says: "Just now it is bad for you and good for me." J1433
- Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
- Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. J1539.2
- Punishment which proves fatal to captor. K582
- Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
- Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. K1564
- Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633
- Swindlers allowed to hide money: proves to be basket of stones. K1675
- Hero proves himself a cannibal by trick vomit-exchange. K1721
- Penniless hero. Loved by a courtesan, he proves later to be a great man. L123.1