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- Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth. A832
- Animal characteristics: punishment for immoderate request. Dissatisfied animal finds that when his request is granted he is worse off than before. A2232
- Eating after one is satisfied. C766
- Fairy dissatisfied with fairyland leaves to live among mortals. F393.0.1
- One giant invites another to a feast (wedding). Latter must be satisfied that food is plentiful. F531.6.8.4.1
- Wisdom learned in underground kingdom: the passions of a human being could not be satisfied on earth. J179.2
- Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing. J514.5
- Curiosity satisfied: riding the ox's horns. As his ox, who has enormous horns, is asleep, the fool gets on the horns. The ox wakes and throws him off. When he comes to his senses, the fool says, "I had a hard time, but my curiosity is satisfied." J2375
- Devil cheated by pretended hanging. The man has promised himself to the devil in return for money. He stuffs his clothes with straw and hangs them up. The devil thinks the man has hanged himself and is satisfied. K215
- Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
- Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. K1532.2
- Saint hides fugitive from king underground. When king demand fugitive, saint (who never lies) replies, "Verily, I know not where he is, if he is not under thee even where thou art." The king is satisfied and departs. Later suspects trick and arrests fugitive. K2319.3
- Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied. T675
- Dissatisfied workmen exchange work: still more dissatisfied. U136.1
- Dissatisfied fox. In kingdom of lions laments that he always gets the worst bits of food. W128.2
- Dissatisfied rivers complain against sea. Say that it makes their water unusable. W128.3
- Peacock dissatisfied with his voice. W128.4
- Monk dissatisfied with things as he has them is admonished to take what he receives from God. W128.5
- Sparrow dissatisfied with pond water wants to go to sea. W128.6