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A ruined merchant is told in a dream how to turn a visitor into gold. A barber watches him do it, understands nothing, and tries it on everyone he can invite home.
Nobody will marry the king's three-breasted daughter, so a blind man and a hunchback take the dowry and sail away with her. Far from home, poison is stirred.
A mongoose raised beside a baby kills the snake that came for the cradle, and runs out to show his mother what he has done.
Four friends walk towards the Himalaya with magic wicks. One finds copper, one silver, one gold — and one keeps walking.
Three scholars find a dead lion's bones and decide it is the perfect chance to test their learning. The fourth friend, who has no learning, climbs a tree.
After twelve years of study, four scholars set out for home — and on the road apply exactly the right quotation to every wrong thing they meet.
Two very clever fish and one plain frog overhear fishermen deciding to net their lake in the morning.
Halfway through robbing a cucumber field on a beautiful clear night, a donkey decides the occasion really calls for a song.
A tree-spirit offers a weaver any boon at all. His friend says ask for a kingdom; his wife has a far more sensible idea.
A miser lies awake under his one pot of barley meal, working out step by step how it will make him rich, married, and the father of a son.
One old monkey traces the chain from a greedy ram in the palace kitchen all the way to the killing of every monkey in the palace. Nobody believes him.
A demon takes the shape of a horse to spy on a rival he has entirely invented. A horse-thief walks into the stable and picks him as the best animal there.
A demon climbs onto a brahmin's shoulders and tells him to walk. The brahmin notices that the demon's feet are strangely soft, and asks why.
One belly, two heads. One head eats a sweet fruit and gives the rest away; the other head remembers it, and later finds a fruit of its own.
A mother will not let her son travel alone, so she fishes a crab out of the tank and sends it along in a camphor box. He humours her.