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- Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.) H583.9
- Young ass avoids food eaten by animals before being slaughtered. Runs to his mother and asks to have all remains of the hog's food taken out. J12
- Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
- The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
- Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin. L111.4.1
- Pet swan saves self by singing death song. Master about to mistake the swan in the dark for the goose that is to be slaughtered. N651
- All new-born male children slaughtered. S302.1