• Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 19
• Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 22

• Icelandic *Boberg
• Finnish Kalevala rune 7 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune VII
• Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "vieille"
• Missouri French Carrière
• Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 9, Rotunda
• Spanish Espinosa II Nos. 99–103, 126–132, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 107, 109
• India *Thompson-Balys
• Korean Zong in-Sob 63, 166
• Hawaii ibid. 257–264, 491
• Tahiti ibid. 251
• Tonga Gifford 156
• Maori Dixon 59
• Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 162
• N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 327 n. 180
• Africa Werner African 233, (Ekoi): Talbot 18, 207, 235, 364, (Basuto): Jacottet 118 No. 17, 142 No. 20, 204 No. 30, 226 No. 33, (Kaffir): Theal 48ff., 82, 145, (Zanzibar): Bateman 128 No. 7, (Angola): Chatelain 47 No. 1, 57 No. 2, 93 No. 5, (Zulu): Callaway 217.
• general *Types 316, 400, 480, 707
• general *BP II 380ff., 466
• general *Cosquin Études 563
• general Hdwb. d. Märchens I s. v. "Alte im Walde"
• general Roberts 150. Irish myth: *Cross
• general Polynesia (general): Beckwith Myth chapt. 17 passim

Filed under Old person as helper.

• The Three Golden Children (previously The Three Golden Sons) · ATU 707 256 recorded variants
• The Healing Fruits · ATU 610 6 recorded variants
• Fiddevav · ATU 593 3 recorded variants
• The Snake as Bridegroom (previously Bathing Girl's Garments Kept) · ATU 425M 2 recorded variants
• The Lost Genitalia · ATU 750K* 1 recorded variant