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- Why deer's tail tastes like liver. A2378.9.4
- Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
- Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
- Manna tastes bitter to gentiles. (Cf. D1031.0.1.) D1665.4
- Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. F647.1
- Well water tastes like oil, wine, and honey. F718.4
- Unknown prince reared by fisher spends money on princely tastes. H41.5.1
- 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
- A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken. J2182
- Every fruit tasted. Fool tastes every piece of fruit before giving it to his master. J2245