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- Provisions received from magic object. D1470.2
- Provisions received from magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1470.2.1
- Magic mallet produces provisions. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1472.2.9
- Provisions magically furnished. (Cf. D1470.) D2105
- Provisions provided in answer to prayer. D2105.1
- Provisions provided by messenger from heaven. D2105.2
- Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. F343.7
- King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom. J711.3
- City without provisions but with much money starves. J712.1
- The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
- Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
- Army of mice save kingdom from enemy invading force by gnawing their provisions, ammunition, etc., to shreds. K632.1
- Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up. K1761
- Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions. K1983
- Hospitality repaid by magic procuring of provisions. Q45.6
- Visitors of sick stag eat up all his provisions so that he starves. W151.2.1