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Motifs
- Magic power obtained secretly from magician's friends. D1721.0.2
- Return from dead to uncover secretly buried treasure. E415.1.2
- "Bite the ear" (do state affairs secretly). H588.15
- Hog's head divided according to scripture. To be divided among three students according to their skill in quoting. First: "And they cut one ear off" (takes ear). Second: "And they gave him a box on the ear" (takes other ear). Third: "And they took him away secretly" (takes whole hog away). J1242.1
- "Bite the ear" (speak secretly). Fool interprets literally. J2489.3
- Contest: who will eat least. Food secretly furnished one, but plan detected and foiled. K81.4
- Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
- Sausage as revolver. Man scares robber with sausage; later boasts of event at inn. Robber hears this. Innkeeper secretly lends man a real revolver; robber is shot down when boldly attempting a second attack. K437.3
- Concealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealed. K451.3
- "Have we leave to go?" Two prisoners are made stable boys on their promise not to escape secretly. Before horse race starts they ask: "Do we have your leave to go?" They go home. K475.2
- Adulteress detected: husband secretly drops dye on her dress. K1550.1.1
- Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers. K1551
- Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor. K1551.1
- Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. K1564
- The treasure-finders who murder one another. Two (three) men find a treasure. One of them secretly puts poison in the other's wine, but the other kills him, drinks the wine and dies. K1685
- King's daughter secretly pledged to many to win their aid. K2034.1
- Hunter accidentally discovers beautiful girl being secretly reared in a cave. N724
- Abandoned child cared for by mother secretly. (Cf. R153.) S351
- Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. T401.1
- Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity. T476