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- Tabu: buying, selling, etc. C780
- Tabu: selling. C782
- Tabu: selling used clothing. C782.1
- Tabu: selling to witch. C782.2
- Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows. C837
- Task: selling an animal and keeping him. H1152
- Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) H1152.1
- Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.) H1153
- Inherited gold ring divided between three by selling it and dividing the money. J1243
- Selling more yards of goods for the money than they received. J2083.6
- Selling his half of the house. A man owns half a house. He wants to sell his half so as to get money to buy the other half and thus have a whole house. J2213.6
- Horse which will not go over trees. Salesman tells buyer that he is selling the horse because it eats too much and will not climb trees. On the way home the horse bites everyone and refuses to cross a bridge. Seller is literally correct. K134.1
- Selling or trading a balky horse. (Cf. K134.2.) K134.6
- Selling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.) K196
- Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. K236.2
- Selling oneself and escaping. K252
- Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. K478
- Girl refusing her lover final kiss provokes rival to admit selling kisses. K1275.1
- Formulas for selling one's soul to devil. M211.5
- Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. P173.4