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Motifs — first 20 of 47
- Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations. D612
- Supernatural beauty of Jerusalem's inhabitants. F575.2.2
- Bill of sale written on man's sandal. F1015.3
- Jerusalem suspended in air. F1083.0.1.3
- The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
- Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" J1265.1
- Gift or sale to animal (or object). J1850
- Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. J1866
- Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
- Air-castles: pail of milk to be sold. Old woman thinks about the horse she is finally to get from the sale. In her imagination she spurs it and spills the milk. J2061.2.1
- One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
- The considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too short. J2088
- Sale of pseudo-magic objects. K110
- Sale of pseudo-magic cake tree. K112.3
- Sale of alleged oracular bamboo cup. K114.4
- Sale of tree with alleged magic fruit. K118
- Sale of tree alleged to produce clothes. K118.1
- Sale of other pseudo-magic objects. K119
- Sale of reputed self-operating sickle. K119.1.2
- Sale of false treasure. K120
Tale types