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• Attendants around God's throne. A152.4
• Gate around hell. A671.5
• Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.) A702.3
• Celestial bodies attached to a wheel in heaven around which they move. A702.3.1
• Sun's night journey. Around or under the earth. A722
• Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru. A759.4
• River that flows around the world. A872
• Origin of hair around mouth and eyes. Original dispute between Hair and Stomach. Stomach compelled to stay on inside of man. Hair stands on guard at mouth and eyes to see that Stomach does not escape. A1315.4
• Why king-salmon is thick around root of tail. A2378.9.1
• Why kangaroo-rat has white band around his body. (Cf. A2218.4.) A2412.1.4
• Why flies fly around ox's eyes. A2479.9
• Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky. (Cf. A2232.4.) A2542.1.1
• Deer with string of pearls around its neck. B105.2
• Oxen draw saint's plow around whole district in one day. B292.4.1.1
• Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. B635.2
• Tabu: looking around. C332
• Tabu: birds not to sing around home of goddess. C481.1
• Tongue of woman who breaks tabu protrudes and entwines itself around a post in the home. C948.3
• Transformation by binding with string around neck. D585
• Transformation by tying charm around person's neck. D585.1
• Disenchantment by putting chain around neck. D723.1
• Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. D759.8
• Girl disenchants her tiger-husband by putting a garland around his neck, sprinkling sand and water over him. D789.9
• Magic tree guarded by serpent (dragon) coiled around its roots. D950.0.1
• Carrying saint's book around army right-handwise insures victory. (Cf. D1266.) D1381.25
• Dextrorsum circuit (around sacred stone) insures victory. D1381.25.1
• Saint's bell carried around tribe averts all danger. (Cf. D1213.) D1389.6
• Power of prophecy induced by crawling backward around grave. (Cf. D1791.) D1812.2.1
• King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
• Mosque turns around in order to face in the true direction of Mecca after prayers of two saints. D2136.2.1
• Wall of snow around hut in answer to prayer. (Cf. D1766.1.) D2143.6.2
• Husband advised how to resuscitate his wife: lift her up and turn her around so her head rests upon the brick which had been under her feet. E181.1
• Walking around a grave twelve times backward will raise the ghost. E386.4
• Tall wall around grave to prevent return. E431.14
• Ghost will vanish if seer walks around it nine times. (Cf. D1791, D1273.1.5.) E439.8
• Wild hunt goes thrice around pond. E501.14.3
• Wild hunt goes several times around a hill. E501.14.4
• Wild hunt goes around the entire earth. E501.14.5
• Coal in bin jumps around and gurgles. E539.5
• Ghosts warm themselves around fire. E578.2
• Waves form high wall around otherworld isle. F141.3
• Wall around otherworld. F148
• Fiery rampart revolves around otherworld isle. F148.1
• Wall of silver around otherworld. F148.2
• Palisade of bronze around otherworld. F148.4
• Four columns around fire in otherworld castle. F165.7.1
• Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.) F235.9
• Water-spirit returns kidnapped man in return for release of his long hair. Victim's father has wound the hair around his fingers. F420.5.2.2.1
• Dwarfs cannot harm mortal with circle drawn around him. F451.3.2.3
• Dwarf follows countess around like a little dog. F451.5.8.1
• Poltergeist. Invisible spirit (sometimes identified as ghost or witch) responsible for all sorts of mischief in or around a household. F473
• Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) F512.1.2
• Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.) F513.1.1
• Thorns around nipples. F546.4
• Extraordinary heat of body melts snow far around person. F593.1
• Birds hatched from broken eggs repaired by skillful tailor have red line around necks. This indicates where eggs were broken. F662.1.1
• Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions. F686
• City protected by red-hot iron floor around it. F767.2
• Rice, the scent of which is smelled for miles around. F815.4.1
• Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted, bands around heart of faithful servant snap one by one. F875
• Hero's light: appears around head of hero aroused to extraordinary feats of valor. F969.3.2
• Sandhill grows around lover keeping watch till it covers all but his head. F969.6
• Slap turns man's face completely around. F1041.24
• Hero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waist. F1088.2
• Three giants with one eye. They pass it around. G121.1
• Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight. G224.8
• Witch pushes man around on floor (witch is invisible). G269.18
• Witch causes person to spin around on bedpost. G269.25
• Child born with chain around neck: sign of royalty. H71.7
• Thief detected by psalter and key. Closed Bible with key inside at magic text loosely held by diviner and client. Name of suspected thief on end of key. As verse is spoken, if name is that of thief, book and key will turn around. H251.3.2
• Oath taken before image. If oath is false the image turns around (or changes color). H251.3.5
• Chain around neck tests truth. Tightens when wearer speaks falsehood. H251.3.6
• Suitor task: to kill treasure-guarding snake lying around the princess's chamber. H335.3.4
• Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck. H412.5
• Quest for flower that sends forth its fragrance for hundred miles around. H1333.5.0.1
• Strength contest: contestants stand with back to rock on opposite side, an iron ring around neck of each connected by chain. They tug until ring severs neck of one. H1562.7
• Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
• Accused woman to go three times around building naked: guilty one begins to strip off her clothes. J1141.1.8
• Gem offered by monarch to one who can first go around the kingdom. Trickster goes around king and says king is kingdom. J1289.14
• As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
• "If he does not live, let him die." The student as healer hangs this sign around the neck of a sick calf. Later as parson he is sick. It is proposed to heal him with the same remedy. J1513.1
• Turning the plate around. A cuts the meat and puts all the good things on his side. B turns the plate around: "See how all things turn about in this world." A turns it back: "However the world may turn, with good friends like us the plate will always remain the same." J1562.1
• Fools do not know what a crayfish is. Shoot it and build a rampart around it. J1736.1
• Boy who has never seen a real carpet, hops around the side of the room to avoid stepping on the cloth on the floor. J1742.5.1
• A fool given money to buy something to eat; goes around asking for a thing called "something." J1805.4
• Holding in the heat. A numskull ties yarn around the stove to keep the heat from escaping. J1942
• How to save the rice. Boy has rice in joined hands and arms around a pillar. Afraid to move lest rice be lost. Roof is removed and boy lifted over pillar. J2119.6
• The sledges turned in the direction of the journey. At night turned around by a joker. J2333
• Mowing contest won by trickery. The man takes the center of the field. The ogre is given a dull sickle and mows around the outside of the field. K42.2
• Alleged healing letter sold. Woman sold a letter to wear around her neck which will prevent eye trouble. It helps only so long as she believes in it. K115.1
• Land bargain: land ridden around during a sermon. K185.7.2
• Deceptive land purchase: king, as reward for help in winning battle, promises wounded chieftain as much land as his chariot can travel around; bribes charioteer to turn back whenever chieftain faints from loss of blood. K185.7.3
• Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing. K278
• Death cheated by moving bed. The man who has chosen Death as his godfather has his bed turned around when he sees Death standing at the foot of his bed. He thus escapes death. K557
• Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. K832.2
• Murder by wrapping snake around man. K953.2
• 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
• Fox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamed. K1114
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1