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• God represented with lightning flashes as sword. A137.14.4
• Lightning flashes from armpits of hero. A526.9
• Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun. A751.5.2
• Moon wants to marry his sister the sun. She is angered and throws hot ashes on his face. A751.5.2.1
• Milky Way is smoke (ashes). A778.8
• Flood from broken calabashes of water. A1016.4
• Why the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire. A1115.3
• Man created from ashes (cinders). A1268
• Origin of eyelashes. A1315.6
• Mosquitoes from ashes of bad woman. (Cf. A2001.) A2034.3
• Why deer has white mark on nose. From white ashes. A2335.2.1
• Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked. A2462.2
• Cat leaps through man like arrow of fire and burns him to ashes. B16.1.1.2
• Serpent reduces man to a heap of ashes by its fiery gaze. B765.14.1
• Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu. C927.2
• Transformation: man to ashes. D286
• Transformation: ashes into animals. D441.6.1
• Transformation: ashes to gold. D475.1.1.1
• Transformation: money to ashes (leaves). D475.2.3
• Transformation: sugar to ashes. D476.2.4
• Transformation by throwing ashes. D575.1
• Magic ashes. D931.1.2
• Magic ashes render invisible. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1361.44
• Magic ashes protect. (Cf. D1271.1.) D1380.8
• Bull's tail becomes a stick that lashes hero's enemies and exterminates an army. (Cf. D1029.2.) D1400.1.21
• Magic mustard-seed causes man to turn to ashes. D1402.16
• Magic pills reduce snake to ashes. D1402.25.1
• Magic ashes summon helper. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1421.0.2
• Magic ashes produce jewelry. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1469.10
• Ashes from burned snake-woman's body will turn anything into gold. D1469.10.1
• Supplies from magic ashes. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1470.2.8
• Magic ashes produce food. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1472.1.30
• Magic healing ashes. (Cf. D1271.1.) D1500.1.2.2
• Ashes cause leprosy. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1500.4.6
• Magic ashes revivify trees. (Cf. D1271.1.) D1571.1
• Hearth cleaned by angel always free of ashes. (Cf. D1147, V230.) D1683
• Forgetting leashes of hounds as bad omen. D1812.5.1.21
• Person magically reduced to ashes. (Cf. D1896.) D2061.1.1
• Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.) D2061.2.5
• Magic glance reduces tree to ashes. Another restores it. D2082.1
• Calabashes broken by magic. D2099.4
• Wind raised by throwing traitor's ashes into lake. D2142.1.4.1
• Resuscitation from ashes of dead man. E42
• Resuscitation of cremated man by blowing on the ashes. E66.1
• Resuscitation through ashes thrown on funeral pyre. E132
• Ashes of burnt hero revive. E174.1
• Pilate appears periodically at Mt. Pilatus and washes his hands. E411.8
• Ashes of dead thrown on water to prevent return. E431.9
• Ghost detected by strewing ashes. Their footprints remain in the ashes. E436.1
• Ashes of dead dog speak. E521.2.1
• Path to sun on sun's rays (eyelashes). (Cf. F152.1.2.) F154
• Fairy's look burns mortal to ashes. F363.4
• Water-spirit splashes passing people. F420.5.2.8
• Dwarf washes, combs, and braids hair for sleeping maids. F451.5.1.13
• Spirit slashes clothing. F473.6.2
• River boils when ashes of hearts are cast into it. F932.7.1
• Ashes thrown into stream dissolve animals. F981.5
• Man washes clothes blindfolded. F1017
• Devil's money becomes ashes. G303.21.1
• Ogre's ashes cast on stream cause rapids to stop. Also kill all creatures in the stream. G655
• Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes. J1146
• Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order. J1539.1
• Wash Bee Day. Woman misinterprets calendar notation "February 22, Wash. B'day." Washes their bee-hives. J1743.3
• Dove sees painted cups of water and dashes into them. J1792.1
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Fool believes gold in bag turns to ashes because of child's urinating on it. Actually bag contained only ashes. J2325.1
• Picking the louse and the flea. One man rewarded with forty crowns for picking louse from king's robe. Imitator given forty lashes for picking flea. J2415.2
• Lime (ashes) sold as gold. K121
• Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag. K321
• Girl made to carry shell from which ashes fall: she is thus followed. K321.1
• Mare is allowed to dance before being killed; it dashes off to jungle with persecuted boy hidden in belly. K551.3.6.2
• Escape from animals by blowing ashes into their faces. K621.2
• Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
• Peacock helper dances before enemy army of hero; flame of fire from her tail burns them all to ashes. K916.1
• Dupe burns house because trickster reports high price paid for ashes. K941.2
• Enemies each burn own houses to be able to sell ashes. K941.3
• Ashes as remedy for sore eyes. K1011.2
• Wife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseen. K1516.7
• Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. K1733
• Sham miracle: rupees turn to ashes. Cheat tells man rupees carried by horse in sack will turn to ashes if man's tired wife rides on its back. Man promises to pay him back if that should happen. Ashes fall from under saddle when woman does and cheat collects. K1975.2
• Ashes transformed into bees, wasps, scorpions and snakes drive invading army away for hero. K2351.2.2
• Women throw ashes in eyes of attacking soldiers, so that they are defeated. K2356
• Ashes abode of unpromising hero. L131.1
• Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Q414.3
• Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. Q414.3.1
• Punishment: eating ashes instead of food. Q478.5
• Punishment: eating ashes (coal) mixed with food. Q478.5.1
• Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Q523.10
• Gods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishment. Q552.13.0.3
• Mysterious stranger blows ashes into face of scoffer and chokes him to death. (Cf. Q225.) Q554.3
• Trail of ashes. R135.0.6
• Fugitives trailed by mustard seeds (ashes) dropped from bag. (Cf. R135.) R267
• Ashes of murdered person passed through sieve and remains put to manure heap. S139.2.2.8
• Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. T92.14
• The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation. T315.2.1
• Jewish child resurrected (saved by power of Virgin Mary) after being burned to ashes for eating consecrated bread in Christian church. V363.1
• The death of the little hen. She is characteristically mourned by objects and animals; e.g., flea, door, broom, cart, ashes, tree, girl. Z32.2