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- Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
- Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. C833.9
- Helmet left for woman to quarrel with. Woman insists upon quarreling with a nobleman. He says, "If you wish to quarrel, I shall leave my helmet here. You can talk to it." J552.4
- Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
- Sheep-dogs stop quarreling to hunt wolf who has raided the flock. J624.2
- The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
- The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
- Sickness ascribed to quarreling wines. A man has drunk so much of various wines that he is sick. He says to the wines, "Have peace among yourselves and don't quarrel or I'll throw you out the window." J1891.1
- Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved. J2129.2
- Thief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girl. K342
- Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. M149.4
- The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2