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- Assignment of crafts and professions: creator opens shop and from it distributes plough, pen, bottle, pair of scales, fishing-net and loom to various groups. A1440.1
- Origin of fish's scales. A2315
- Origin of shell-fish's black scales. A2315.1
- Origin of alligator's scales. (Cf. A2311.7.) A2315.2
- Scales of dragon. B11.2.10
- Fairy transforms herself into a monstrous being with head of an ape, thin legs, sharp claws, fish scales and bristles. D49.3
- Water-spirits have body covered with fish scales. F420.1.4.2
- Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings. F526.3
- Giant with dragon-scales for feet. F531.1.3.1
- Scales test: weighing witch against Bible. H234
- Task: bringing quantity of mosquito bones within month; countertask: furnishing scales with wind as beams and heat as pans. (Cf. H951.) H1022.9
- Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
- The iron-eating mice. Trustee claims that mice have eaten the iron scales confided to him. The host abducts the trustee's son and says that a falcon has carried him off. J1531.2
- Bridegroom gets into bed. The numskull groom on his wedding night does not know how to get to the bed, the curtains being drawn. He scales one of the posts, clambers to the canopy, falls upon his bride below, who screams for help. J1744.1.1
- Fortune with pair of scales in his hands weighs man's balance. N111.3.2
- Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales. N478
- The rich man's trial in heaven. A piece of bread given to a beggar is placed on the scales. Q172.2.1
- Man whose only good deed was unintentional sees this deed outweigh all his evil in the scales of judgment. V512.2