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- Beating the devil. One must give him an odd number of strokes. Devil asks for one stroke more. G303.16.19.19
- Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. G519.5
- Strokes shared. The boy promises the soldier what the king has promised to give him. The soldier receives a beating in place of the boy. K187
- "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding. K1917.7
- Ox likes loving strokes of man; flea fears them. U142