  We describe two situations where adding the adjoint divisor to a divisor D
with smooth normalization yields a free divisor. Both also involve stability or
versality. In the first, D is the image of a corank one stable germ of a map
from complex n-space to complex (n+1)-space, and is not free. In the second, D
is the discriminant of a versal deformation of a weighted homogeneous function
with isolated critical point (subject to certain numerical conditions on the
weights). Here D itself is already free. We also prove an elementary result,
inspired by these first two, from which we obtain a plethora of new examples of
free divisors. The presented results seem to scratch the surface of a more
general phenomenon that is still to be revealed.
