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- Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.) B512
- Hell shown to Jonah by fish. F109.2
- Fairy gifts turn to paper when shown. (Cf. F342.1, F348.0.1.) F348.9.1
- Devil repays a kindness: returns coat lent him and brings the one who had shown him kindness back home when imprisoned. G303.22.1
- Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
- Ordeal by water. Guilt or innocence shown by ability to swim. H222
- Guilt or innocence shown by effect of enchanted water. H222.3
- Bad character shown by the eyes. H1550.1
- The dishes of the same flavor. Man thus shown that one woman is like another and dissuaded from his amorous purpose. J81
- Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. J94
- Fate of parents revealed in dream. Mother shown in Hell; father in Heaven. J157.2
- Millstone preferred to jewels. Man shown jewels that cost much money; he replies that he has better stones (millstones) that earn that much. J245.1
- Dervish who stops work. Sees bird feed its young and decides that God takes care of everyone without work. He is shown his mistake. J702.1
- King orders piece of cloth shown after his death. The measure of all that he has taken with him to the grave. J912.1
- Show me how it is done. Wronged woman thus addresses ruler, who is indifferent to insults directed at him. She wishes to be shown how to bear insults. This rebukes him. J1284.1
- Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
- Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. K149.1
- Importunate lover induced to dress as woman and sift flour. Is shown to his wife. K1214.1
- King shown he is less powerful than God. In spite of all his plans, his servant recovers the lost (exchanged) treasure. L418
- Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not died. N121.2