• Why women never have leisure. Because they refused to show God the way, saying they had no time. A1372.8
• Power of soothsaying from serpents' licking ears. (Cf. B165.1.1., B176.) Frazer Apollodorus II 48 n. 2. B161.1
• Soothsaying learned from a god. D1726.0.1
• Magic produced by saying mass. D1766.5
• Foster-mother summoned by saying her name. D2074.2.4.1
• Magic repetition. Person must keep on doing or saying thing until released. D2172.1
• Ghost laid by saying masses. E443.2.1
• Flower with "ave" on leaves. Crows from tomb as reward for faithful sayings of "Ave Maria". E631.0.2.1
• People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them. G23
• Clever daughter construes enigmatic sayings. H561.1.1.1
• Contest in enduring cold: frost and the hare. Hare tries to deceive frost by lying on frozen snow and saying, "Oh, how warm!" H1541.1
• Fool given the truth on his back. He tells his master what the servants have done during his absence. The servants whip him on his bare back, saying at each blow, "That is the truth." When the master returns and tells the fool to tell the truth, the latter replies, "There is nothing worse on earth than the truth." J551.2
• Jackal covers up his inability to cross stream by saying he is looking for shallowest part. J873.1
• Clever jackal covers up his clumsiness in catching cows by saying he was running to and fro because he was looking for the fattest calf. J873.2
• Noble and ugly holy man embraces man who calls him ugly, saying he loves those who see him as he really is. J921
• Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt. A man ties his mare to a second man's wagon. The mare bears a colt which the wagon-owner claims, saying that the wagon has borne a colt. Real owner of the colt shows the absurdity (1) by fishing in the street or (2) by telling that his wife is shooting fish in the garden. Neither of these things are so absurd as the decision. J1191.1
• Poet is importuned by admirers. Vaults away from them saying: "You may tell me anything you wish – in your own homes! J1224.1
• Why God has few friends. Priest consoles sick man by saying that God chastens those whom he loves. J1261.1.2
• Rushing through the mass. Two priests apply for the position of chaplain and argue as to which one can say the mass more quickly. One clinches the argument saying: "You could not say it more quickly than I because I don't read half of it!" J1263.1.3.1
• Too much for his income. Child born two months after marriage. Husband returns wife to her father (uncle) saying: "I can't afford a child every two months." J1276.2

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