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- Wolf's body made smaller. (Cf. A2213.1.) A2302.5
- Origin of wolf's skin. (Cf. A2210.) A2311.3
- Why the wolf's muzzle is black. A2335.4.5
- Eating serpent's and wolf's flesh makes courageous and impetuous. (Cf. D1032.) D1358.1.2
- Werwolf killed and recognized by man's clothes under the wolf's skin or rosary on the neck. H64.2
- Identification by wolf's hair. H75.5
- Quest for wolf's milk. H1361.3
- Dog as wolf's shoemaker eats up the materials. Devours the cow, hog, etc. furnished him. K254.1
- Ram promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.) K553.3
- Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back. K652
- Tit for tat. Wolf tells sick lion that fox does not esteem him. Fox overhears it. Later fox tells lion that his only cure lies in his wrapping himself in the wolf's skin. Wolf is killed. K961.1.1
- Basket tied to wolf's tail and filled with stones. Wolf is persuaded that it is filled with fish. K1021.2
- Wolf tied to cow's horns. The fox ties one end of the rope around the wolf's neck, the other to the cow they intend to eat. The cow drags the wolf to the house where the man skins it. K1022.2
- When wolf pretends to slander tiger fox agrees; later tells tiger he was trying to test wolf's malice. K2043
- Girl suckled by wolf has nail "like a wolf's nail." T611.10.1
- Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment. "That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough." (Cf. B382.) W154.3
- Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days. W181.4
- The nailed wolf's tail. Wolf's tail nailed to tree. Wolf runs away and leaves his skin hanging. X1132.1
- If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" X1133.3.2
- The singing wolf. By his singing the wolf compels the old man to surrender his cattle, his children and grandchildren, and finally his wife. The old woman goes in the wolf's service. She returns home bringing butter, etc. Z33.4.2
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