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- Why animals are unrestrained. A2526
- Fish trained to answer person's call. B771.4
- Trained deer drinks wine till he breaks his leg but thereafter abstains. Thus teaches lesson to master. J133.3
- Untrained colt result of master's neglect. J143
- Well-trained kid does not open to wolf. J144
- When in anger say the alphabet. Man thus restrained from hasty judgment. J571.1
- King restrained from hasty judgment by being told story. J571.5
- What is wanted, not what is asked. A servant is so trained that when the host asks for wine from a good cask he brings it from a cheap one. When the guest objects, the host says that the servant brought not what was asked for but what was wanted. J1311
- The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse. J1908.1
- Deceptive wager: cat to carry lantern into room. (Has been specially trained.) K264.2
- Theft by trickster's trained animal. K366
- Sham magician has paramour fall in a trap. Has trained bird to cling to him. K1574.1
- Mohammed puts seed in his ears and when doves trained to feed there come, he tells people that they bring messages from God. K1962.1
- Trained rat upsets pieces in gambling game: trained (or transformed) cat chases it away. N7
- Untrained monk becomes skillful wright (smith) through power of saint. P426.3.1
- Man constrained to flee with leader's fiancée resists her blandishments. W34.1
- Lies: animals trained to respond to certain sounds: absurd result. X1206
- Well-trained horse. X1241.2
- Trained horse as harvester and hunter. He rolls in the field. Oats in his flanks; club in his tail kills birds. (Cf. X1252.1.) X1241.2.2