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- Sun and moon purchased. A700.6
- Purchase of night. Originally no night. Culture hero goes to distant land and buys it. He introduces sleep, etc. Cock to crow for day. (Cf. B755, J2272.1.) A1174.3
- Helpful animals obtained by purchase or gift. B312
- Helpful animal purchased. B312.4
- Helpful dogs obtained by purchase. B312.4.1
- Magic object purchased. D851.1
- Hero wakened from magic sleep by wife who has purchased place in his bed from false bride. (Cf. D1971.) D1978.4
- Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
- Cobold purchased. F481.0.1.2
- The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
- Wisdom purchased. J163
- The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
- Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
- The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
- Sent back for the rest of the money. A fool finds a treasure and takes some of it to a judge so as to purchase influence. The judge sends him back for the rest. J2662
- Deceptive land purchase. (Dido.) K185
- Deceptive land purchase: ox-hide measure. As much land bought as can be surrounded by an ox-hide. The hide is cut into very small strips. K185.1
- Deceptive land purchase: as much land as Vishnu can lie upon (or can step over in three steps). His worshippers claim for him the whole earth. K185.2
- Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
- Deceptive land purchase: as much land as a shawl will cover. An immense shawl prepared. K185.4