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- Why deer's tail tastes like liver. A2378.9.4
- Meat takes on taste of any dainty desired. D476.3.1
- Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
- Food has taste of any dainty desired. (Cf. D1030, D1359.4.) D1665
- Drink has taste of any liquor desired. (Cf. D1040.) D1665.1
- Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
- Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) D1665.3
- Manna tastes bitter to gentiles. (Cf. D1031.0.1.) D1665.4
- Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. F647.1
- Fountain has taste of wine. (Cf. F718.3.) F716.1.1
- Well water tastes like oil, wine, and honey. F718.4
- Snow has taste of wine. F962.11.1
- Milk has taste of wine and honey. F1094
- Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism. G36
- Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. G36.2
- Unknown prince reared by fisher spends money on princely tastes. H41.5.1
- Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. H439.2
- Prince of democratic tastes chosen. King asks three sons what kind of bird they would prefer to be. First: an eagle, because it is ruler of birds; second: a falcon; because it is beloved by the nobles; third: a bird which flies with many others, so as to receive advice. King chooses third. J412.1
- The cynic as judge of wine. Asked which wine tastes best, he says, "That belonging to other people." J1442.5
- Clever deduction of wise man: the theft of a cauldron detected. Cauldron has been buried in river. Thief has no taste of salt on his body: he must have been immersed in fresh water recently. J1661.1.10