• Animal's seeking attitude from ancient loss. The ancient animal loses something. Its descendants are forever seeking for the lost object. This explains the characteristic bearing of certain animals. (Cf. A2471.) A2275.5
• Why animals continually seek something. (Cf. A2275.5.) A2471
• Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something. C566.2
• Transformation by placing something on head. D596
• Disenchantment by slinging against something. D712.2
• Resuscitation by slinging against something. E27
• Ghost summoned to get something from it. E387.2
• Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
• Fairy gift disappears or is turned to something worthless when tabu is broken. F348.0.1
• Persons who at night become nightmares. Those who are born on a Thursday and christened on a Sunday must at certain times (on Thursdays) press somebody or something. F471.1.5
• Riddle: what is the best time to eat? For the rich man, when he wishes; for the poor man, when he has something to eat. H659.17
• Task: bringing something ever-increasing (ambition); something ever-decreasing (life); something which neither increases nor decreases (one's fated lot); and something which both increases and decreases (universe). H1075
• Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
• Naïve remark of child: "You forgot to strike mother." A father in habit of beating his wife remarks that he has forgot something. The child says, "I know. You forgot to strike mother." J122
• Choice: to do that which one knows or to learn something. J483
• Bishop fond of lawsuits is ordered by king to settle them: bishop pleads for a few to be left so that he will have something to live for. J552.2.1
• Thornbush blamed by fox for wounding him. He should have known better than to lay hold of something whose nature is to lay hold of others. J656.1
• I know not how. Sick man: "I came to a place I know not where; something happened I know not how; I am sick I know not where." Doctor: "Go to the pharmacy and buy I know not what, and eat it I know not how, and you will become well I know not when." J1431
• When Caleb comes. Man attempts to stay in haunted house all night. One cat after another enters, says, "Everything will be all right when Caleb comes, won't it?" (or something similar). Man finally says, "When Caleb comes, tell him I was here and left." He leaves. J1495.2
• Bargain: to render service for "something". Claimant has called dead cricket "something" and must be content. J1521.5.1

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• ATU 1563 'Both' A farmhand (often an ill-treated one) is sent by the farmer into the house to get something
• ATU 1641B* Who Stole from the Church A man promises that in exchange for a good meal he will reveal who stole something from the church
• ATU 1800 Stealing Something Small (previously Stealing Only a Small Amount)
• ATU 1832B* What Kind of Dung A clergyman (man) sees a boy on the road who is looking at something
• ATU 1833A 'What Does David Say' A clergyman sends his servant to buy something from the butcher David (Paul, Moses)