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- Bee as God's spy. God, the creator, sends a bee to overhear the devil's secrets. A33.3.1
- God reveals secrets (mysteries) to mortals. A182.1
- Bird reveals druidic secrets. B122.1.2
- Secrets discussed in animal meeting. B235
- Animals tell hero their secrets. Do so voluntarily. B561
- Tabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420). C31.9
- Tabu: revealing secrets of god. C51.4
- Tabu: uttering secrets. C420
- Tabu: uttering secrets heard from spirits. C423.4
- Tabu: uttering secrets – miscellaneous. C429
- Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. F381.4
- Secrets forced from overpowered monster. (Cf. G515.) G510.2
- Tasks performed by means of secrets overheard from tree. H963
- King has amours with great men's wives so as to learn secrets from them. J155.2
- Clever wife obtains secrets from husband by questioning him. J1112.5
- Theological questions answered by propounding simple questions in science. Where was God before he made heaven and earth? and the like answered by "Why a louse bite raises a blister, a flee bite raises a swelling, and a gnat bite is unnoticeable?" If you cannot answer such simple questions how can you pry into God's secrets. J1291.2
- Priest induced to betray secrets of confessional: money then exacted from him for silence. The trickster confesses that he has had intimacies with the priest's maid and then overhears the priest scold the maid. K443.8
- Man who betrays secrets cursed. M414.11
- Valuable secrets learned. N440
- Secrets overheard. N450