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- In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
- Devil takes man waiting for water to turn to wine at midnight on Old Christmas Eve. D477.1.1
- Dragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.) D1975
- Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. F638.3
- Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval. J1041
- Is ready to go. A peddler scolds the dog who is waiting and tells him to get ready to go with him. The dog replies that he has nothing to carry, that it is the peddler who is late. J1475
- Foolish waiting. J2066
- Waiting in vain for fruit to fall from a non-fruitbearing tree. J2066.3.1
- Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come. J2214.3
- Waiting in the graveyard for the thief. He must eventually come here. J2214.3.1
- Waiting for the thief to return for the bolster. After the cover is stolen, the numskulls conclude that the thief will certainly return for the bolster. J2214.3.2
- Waiting for the thieves to return for invoice of goods stolen. J2214.3.3
- Importunate lover (priest) is forced to hide in chest. Husband takes the chest to the waiting congregation. Clever priest comes out enacting the resurrection of Lazarus. K1218.1.4
- Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes. K1227.5
- Juggler promises to fly from one house to another. Keeps crowd waiting until dusk and then makes his escape. K1967
- Horn of Roncevalles. Hero calls aid of waiting soldiers on horn. R187
- Waiting for twenty-two years to see a beauty. T24.7
- St. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. She is waiting for him at the rear door of the house. T251.3
- Pulling the needle out of the seamstress's hand. Final formula: That was just what the cat was waiting for – it sprang to devour the mouse, the mouse to tear the spider's web, the spider to entangle the dog, the dog to eat the goat, the goat to gnaw the rushes, the rushes to grow in the stream, the stream to quench the fire, the fire to burn the stone, the stone to beat the axe, the axe soon pulled out the needle that was stuck in the seamstress's hand. Z41.8