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- Magic object eaten unwittingly. D859.4
- Magic bird-heart eaten unwittingly. D859.4.1
- Magic bird-liver eaten unwittingly. D859.4.2
- Person unwittingly swallows snake, which kills him. F929.2.1
- Human flesh eaten unwittingly. G60
- Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. G61
- Murderer caused to eat victim's flesh unwittingly. Sickens and dies. G62
- Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
- Unwitting marriage to cannibal G81
- Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. H310.2
- Tasks assigned at own unwitting suggestion. Jason thus sent for the Golden Fleece. H917
- "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
- Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
- Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason. J1563.5.2
- Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
- "Old Saddle" granted by the king. This is the name of an estate, which the king unwittingly gives away. K193.1
- Embarrassing gift. Trickster unwilling to pay for burial fee of aged cow, gives cow to unwitting Brahmin as gift. Cow dies soon and Brahmin must pay. K499.5
- Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
- Message of death. Man carries unwittingly an oral order for his own execution. K978.1
- Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. K1216