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- Burial learned from watching raven bury its dead. A1591.1
- Animal characteristics from contest in watching. A2256
- Hare and man contest in watching for leaf to fall off tree. First one to succeed may eat other. Hare loses. A2256.1
- Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. C746
- Tabu: watching game without aiding loser. C882
- Failure to disenchant by not watching sleeping princess long enough. D759.9
- Understanding of universality of death from watching animals prey on one another. J52.1
- Lazy pupil determines to be more diligent by watching man building home one wattle at a time, and seeing how water fills hole one drop at a time. J67.1
- Actual rescuer gets woman. Watchers could never have got her merely by watching. J1179.12
- Deer captured in bird-net: water flows upstream. One partner claims a deer he has captured in his bird-net. The other pretends to be watching water flow upstream. J1534
- Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth. K1251.1.1
- Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them. K1451
- Threefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinking. P14.16