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• Extraordinary strength; elephant-wrestler. F617.1
• Strong man tames animals. F618
• Strong hero tames ungovernable horse. F618.1
• Strong man: tree-puller. Can uproot and carry off trees. (Cf. F611.3.1, F614.2.) F621
• Trees pulled up by animals. F621.1
• Trees pulled up by giant. F621.2
• Trees pulled up and thrust into the ground upside down by Antichrist, a giant. F621.2.1
• Giant polishes teeth with uprooted tree. F621.2.2
• Tree as strong man's umbrella. F621.3
• Mighty blower. Man turns mill with his blowing. (Cf. X935.) F622
• Mighty blower slows down princess with his breath. F622.1
• Mighty blower blows firebrand so that sparks fly far, blows seawaves back and forth. F622.2
• Strong man holds up mountain. F623
• Mighty lifter. F624
• Saint as mighty lifter. (Cf. V220.) F624.0.1
• Strong man lifts horse (ox, ass). F624.1
• Strong man throws elephant across sea. F624.1.1
• Strong man throws walrus. F624.1.2
• Strong man throws leopard. F624.1.3
• Strong man lifts large stone. F624.2
• Strong man throws enormous stone. F624.2.0.1
• Strong man throws mountain. (Cf. F623, F626.) F624.2.0.1.1
• Strong man moves enormous rock. F624.2.0.2
• Strong man lifts millstone. F624.2.1
• Strong man lifts large stone with one hand. F624.2.2
• Strong hero lifts cart. F624.3
• Strong man throws carriage with horses and driver on top of haystack and breaks the driver's ribs. F624.3.1
• Strong man lifts plow. F624.4
• Strong man lifts ton of rye. F624.5
• Strong hero lifts house. F624.6
• Strong man carries boat (ship). F624.7
• Strong man throws opponent into the air. F624.8
• Little girl moves enormous bow which nobody could ever carry before. F624.9
• Strong man carries bellows. F624.10
• Strong man: breaker of iron. (Cf. X946.) F625
• Hero drives spear through seven iron plates. F625.1
• Strong man pulls down mountains. F626
• Strong man flattens hill (lops off hilltop). F626.1
• Strong man kicks mountain down. F626.2
• Strong man pulls down building. F627
• Strong man as mighty slayer. (Cf. F615.2.2.) F628
• Precocious strong hero as mighty slayer. (Cf. F611.3.2.) F628.0.1
• Strong man kills animals with own hands. F628.1
• Strong man slays monster. F628.1.0.1
• Strong man kills lion with own hands. F628.1.1
• Strong man kills tiger single-handed. F628.1.1.1
• Strong man kills leopard. F628.1.1.2
• Strong man kills jaguar. F628.1.1.3
• Strong man kills bear. F628.1.1.4
• Strong man kills wolves in sea. F628.1.1.5
• Man kills ox with flat of hand. F628.1.2
• Man kills cow with flat of hand. F628.1.2.1
• Man swings wild steer by horns round and round till it is stunned, casts it to ground. F628.1.2.2
• Strong man kills great serpent. F628.1.3
• Man kills serpents, toads, dragons with own hands. F628.1.3.1
• Child tears to pieces a live snake with his bare hands. (Cf. F611.3.2.) F628.1.3.2
• Strong hero kills aquatic animal with own hands. F628.1.4
• Strong hero kills many crocodiles with own hands. F628.1.4.1
• Strong hero kills sharks with own hands. F628.1.4.2
• Strong hero kills walrus with own hands. F628.1.4.3
• Strong man kills giant dog. F628.1.5
• Strong hero fells two maddened elephants. F628.1.6
• Strong man kills men. F628.2
• Strong man kills many men at once. F628.2.1
• Strong man throws another from walls. F628.2.2
• Strong man kills giant. F628.2.3
• Army of strong men. F628.2.4
• Strong man kills men with own hands. F628.2.5
• Strong man kills many with hammer. F628.2.6
• Strong man uses man as weapon. F628.2.7
• Strong man kills robber with a snap of his finger. F628.2.8
• Strong man cleaves horse and rider in two with sword. F628.2.10
• Strong man slays spectre. F628.3
• Strong man's mighty spear-cast (sword blow). F628.4
• Strong man plunges sword into stone. F628.4.1
• Strong hero wields many weapons at once. F628.5
• Strong man carries giant load. (Cf. F531.3.10, F624.) F631
• Strong man drags mill. F631.1
• Strong man carries off city gates. F631.2
• Strong man carries off door-frame and frame of smoke-hole. F631.2.1
• Strong man swims carrying fifty (many) companions. F631.3
• Strong man carries ox on the back. F631.4
• Strong man carries heavy oxhide on the hand. F631.5
• Strong man carries huge beam. F631.6
• Strong men knock on door with beam of twenty elbow-lengths. F631.6.1
• Man carries a beam eighteen feet in length and cuts path through jungle at same time. F631.6.2
• Mighty eater. Eats whole ox at time, or the like. (Cf. X931.) F632
• Mighty drinker. Drinks up whole pools of water, or the like. (Cf. X932.) F633
• Mighty fisherman. Palm tree as rod, elephant as bait. F634
• Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) F634.1
• Remarkable spitter. Spits lake of soap. (Cf. F934). F635
• Remarkable thrower. (Cf. F531.3.2., F624.0.1, F624.3.1, F624.8, F628.2.2, F628.4, X943.) F636
• Remarkable thrower of iron. F636.1
• Remarkable thrower of chips. F636.2
• Remarkable pourer of water. F636.3
• Remarkable stone-thrower. F636.4
• Hero throws up a stone: before it falls, he drinks a full jar empty. F636.4.1
• Strong man catches stones hurled from catapults by enemy and throws them back upon the besiegers. F636.4.2
• Strong man's stone-throw carries away roof-timber. F636.4.3
• Hero catches a giant jug and pitches it about. F636.5
• Strong man holds back ship. F637
• Mighty archer. F638
• Arrow shot thirty miles high. F638.1
• Arrow shot down years after the shot. F638.2
• Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. F638.3
• Strong man shoots arrow as far as otherworld. F638.4
• Extraordinary powers – miscellaneous. F639
• Mighty digger. F639.1
• Mighty digger of tunnels. F639.1.1
• Strong man's finger digs into ground with such force that water gushes out. F639.1.2
• Mighty diver. Can stay extraordinary time under water. F639.2
• Strong man's shield-cast annihilates fleeing enemy and chariot. F639.3
• Strong man overcomes giant. (Cf. F628.2.3.) F639.4
• Strong man kicks through heavy door. F639.5
• Strong man tears boat apart with hands. F639.6
• Man presses out twelve measures of oil without the help of bullocks. F639.7
• Palace shakes when strong man gets upon its roof. F639.8
• Strong man crushes ribs of person he embraces. F639.9
• Strong man's anger: bites brass rods in anger and spits them out as powder. F639.10
• Strong man grinds huge rocks into powder. F639.11
• Nine hundred horses draw chariot in which strong man rides. F639.12
• Extraordinary powers of perception. F640
• Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.) F641
• Man can hear grass (wool) grow. F641.1
• Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away. F641.2
• Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. F641.3
• Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.) F642
• Remarkable star-gazer. Sees birds in nest in distant tree. F642.1
• Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth. F642.2
• Person can see through opaque objects. F642.3
• Person of remarkable sight can see through hearts of trees. F642.3.1
• Remarkable sight of sage lets him see worm in loaf. F642.3.2
• Blind man is able to see two unborn rats within mother rat. F642.3.3
• Person sees equally well by night or day. F642.4
• Man can see celestial nymphs dancing in divine world. F642.5
• One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea. F642.6
• Person of remarkable sight can see the soul. F642.7
• Person sees enormous distance. F642.8
• Marvelously wise man. F645
• Wise man answers all questions. F645.1
• Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. F645.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness. F647
• Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. F647.1
• Extraordinary gustatory sense. Woman detects flavor of garlic in a sauce made in a mortar from which garlic has been removed. F647.1.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. F647.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) F647.3
• Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statue. F647.4
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman refuses to look at male fish. F647.4.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. F647.5
• Marvelous sensitiveness: meat is dog's flesh. F647.5.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: food has been raised in particular kind of manure. F647.5.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. F647.5.3
• Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. F647.6
• Marvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's rays. F647.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. F647.8
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. F647.8.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. F647.8.1.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.) F647.9
• Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. F647.9.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. F647.9.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. F647.10
• Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. F647.11
• Girl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers. F647.12
• Extraordinary sympathy (telepathic) with wild animals. F648
• Remarkable power to walk directly to nearest water. F651
• Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) F652
• Man identifies picker of berries by their scent. F652.1
• Man smells pots boiling 400 miles off. F652.2
• Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.) F654
• Extraordinary perception of blind men. F655
• Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
• Blind tiger recognizes by man's voice that he is a hypocrite. F655.2
• Remarkable skill. F660
• Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
• Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing. F660.2
• Follower of a saint is miraculously made a famous preacher. F660.2.1
• Skillful marksman. F661
• Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. F661.1
• Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. F661.2
• Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. F661.3
• Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. F661.3.1
• Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. F661.4
• Archer shoots eggs through middle. F661.4.1
• Archer shoots and marks egg in nest without breaking it or disturbing other eggs. F661.4.2
• Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. F661.4.3
• Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. F661.5
• Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. F661.5.1
• Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. F661.5.2
• Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. F661.5.3
• Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. F661.5.4
• Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. F661.5.5
• Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. F661.6
• Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. F661.7
• Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. F661.7.1
• Skillful marksman throws swords and scabbards so that swords are sheathed in air. F661.7.2
• One arrow shot into end of last one to make rope of arrows. F661.7.3
• Skillful marksman casts lance through ring. F661.8
• Skillful marksman casts lance through hole in leaf. F661.8.1
• Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. F661.9
• Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1