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- Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu. C967
- One traveler to another: Is this cup valuable or not? (Is your daughter married or not?) H586.7
- Enigmatic counsels of a father. Taken literally bring trouble, but when properly interpreted are valuable. H588
- Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward. H900
- The valuable neglected for the interesting. J345
- Valuable rubies baked in bread. J1655.2
- Valuables given away or sold for trifle. J2093
- Men hang old bedridden weaver instead of young, valuable member of colony after the young man has accidentally killed an Indian. The Indian tribe demands punishment. J2233.1.1
- Trickster temporarily lames valuable horse and buys him for trifle. K134.8
- King promises valuable dog to each of two powerful and mutually hostile tribes. At feast prepared by king the two tribes get into fight and king escapes. K234.1
- Payment in worthless goods which are alleged to be valuable goods transformed. K249.4
- Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps. K331.3
- Trickster pretends to teach dance: flees with valuables. (Cf. K571.) K374
- Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable. K421
- Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) K1252
- Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. K1581.6
- Valuable secrets learned. N440
- Monk yells "thief" to repel temptress. When she seeks him in his bed he screams. He says she steals his most valuable possession, virtue. T331.9