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- Tabu: showing surprise when supernatural husband resumes his true shape. C32.1.2
- Salvatio Romae. Image of land showing by means of magic bell outbreak of rebellion in any province. (Cf. D1213.) D1323.4.1
- Murder by showing man caul with which he was born. D2061.2.7
- Ogre deceived by showing sharp knife or sword for nose or tongue. G572.2
- Task: making a rope of sand; countertask: first showing the pattern. (Cf. H951.) H1021.1.1
- Task: showing picture of a voice. H1033
- Boy saves life by showing father foolishness of plowing up his crop. Father has been persuaded to kill child. J92
- Plea by showing great temptation to crime. J1165
- Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. J1539.2
- The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
- Tiger flatters cow into showing that she has few teeth. Kills her. K815.9
- The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". K1555.2
- Husband discomfits paramour and wife by clever remark showing that he knows all. K1569.8
- Large animal frightened by smaller showing him well rope (for his tail), curds (for spit), winnowing fans (for ears). K1715.12
- Incognito prince joins gamblers. He is beaten for showing courtesy. Realizes his folly and returns home. K1812.2.2
- Undutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him. P236.7
- Lover declares himself by showing her own reflection to his beloved. (Cf. T91.6.1.1.) T57.1
- Wife reproves continent husband by showing conduct of cock and hens. T315.2.2
- Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. W154.8