• Tabu: stranger to play with someone without asking permission. C892
• Dead find no rest since someone daily knocks at grave. E419.2
• Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls. E741.1.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. F647.11
• Task: recalling a dream someone else has had. H1042
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• Whom it concerns. There is someone carrying a goose. How does that concern me? He is carrying it to your house. How does that concern you? J1353
• The sound of shaving. An unskillful barber keeps cutting a man's face. A noise is heard. The man: "What is that?" Barber: "A smith shoeing horses." Man: "I thought it was someone being shaved." J1484
• Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!" J2012.6
• Man made to believe that he is someone else. J2013
• Pumpkin tied to another's leg. A numskull ties a pumpkin to his leg at night so that he shall know himself in the morning. Someone ties the pumpkin to another's leg and the numskull is not sure of his identity next morning. J2013.3
• Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese. J2173.2
• The moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over it. J2328
• King punishes one of his men who robs someone to whom the king has given safe conduct. M203.1
• Son killed because mistaken for someone else. (Cf. N321.) N338.3
• Queen's jewel-box thrown into tank floats to top during first week of new moon; light or large jewel on top reveals it to passersby. It disappears when someone tries to get it. N513.6
• Orphan gets wife because swollen creek prevents marriage to someone else. N699.4
• Princess cannot be married to someone of low caste, though he passes suitor test. P41
• Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses. Q521.6
• Falling in love with someone of a different caste. T91.7.2

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