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- Origin of weights and measures. A1471.2
- Magic suspension of weight. D1691
- Ghost prevents removal of box from abbey. The box takes on miraculous weight. E299.2
- Person remarkably light in weight. F584
- Princess' weight that of five flowers. F584.1
- Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.) G259.4
- Recognition by manner of throwing cakes of different weights into faces of old uncles. H35.5
- If princess is chaste her weight will be only that of five flowers; if not, normal. H413.6
- Riddles of weight and measure. H690
- Riddles of weight. H691
- Weight of bodily member chosen rather than its loss. (Cf. J351.) J341
- Fox prefers to bear weight of his tail rather than give part of it to ape. J341.1
- Gnats apologize for lighting on bull's horn. He had not felt their weight. J953.10
- Crow alighting on falling tree thinks his weight made it fall. J953.11
- The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
- Fool undergoes castration to put on weight. J1919.5.3
- Guarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stones. J2125
- Reduced prices but false weights. K286
- Owner pretends to help burglars to divide booty: handles weights so loudly that police are summoned. K432.2
- Trickster threatens to throw weight into a cloud: ogre intimidated. K1746