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• Satan seduces Adam to sin because he is jealous of him. A63.5.1
• God's throne becomes hot because of activities on earth. A152.9
• Culture hero spares certain evil spirits. Old Age, Cold, Poverty, and Hunger beg the culture hero not to destroy them because of their real usefulness to man. A531.1
• Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place. A625.2
• Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick. A702.8
• Sun hidden at night because afraid to wander. A722.6
• Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
• Eclipses because sun cannot endure tragic happenings of history. A737.10
• Partial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon. A737.11
• Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
• Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth. A832
• Natural features because of combat of huge rock columns with each other. A901.2
• Hills because sky asked earth to wrinkle up its feet. A969.4
• Rocks or hill-tops flat because persons (gods) slept or cooked on them. A972.5.5
• Flood because earth has become too thickly populated. A1019.3
• World-fire because of man's arrogance. A1031.5
• Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt ship. A1115.1
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin. A1331
• Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346). A1331.1
• Paradise lost because of forbidden food. A1331.1.1
• Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest. A1331.2
• Paradise lost because first woman is seduced. A1331.2.1
• Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages. A1333
• Origin of death because world is overpopulated. A1335.8
• Origin of death because people weary of living. A1335.9
• Men die because a snake comes to prey on mankind while creator rests. A1335.10
• Origin of menstruation – Eve and the serpent. It is a punishment because Eve had intercourse with the serpent. A1355.1
• Origin of menstruation – punishment because Eve ate forbidden fruit. A1355.1.1
• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Why women never have leisure. Because they refused to show God the way, saying they had no time. A1372.8
• Man rules all animals. God gives greatest strength to lion, but because of man's wisdom lion is in his power. A1421.1.1
• Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
• Patriarchs because of long life made inventions. A1440.3
• Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water. A1614.2
• Black tribe because woman is put on fire. A1614.8
• Origin of the Fir Bolg ("Men of the Sacks"); so-called because as slaves they were forced to carry earth in sacks (builg). A1657.2
• Why Jews read and write from right to left: because of the ugly name of the king of the Jews. A1689.6
• Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2252.4
• Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man. A2261.6
• Animal characteristics because creator had not enough time to finish what he began. A2286.1.0.1
• Why zabi's eyes are narrow: because he laughs so hard. A2332.3.2
• Animals (and men) hop because ground is often so dry that it cracks: they have to jump over the cracks. A2441.1.0.1
• Why raven is thief. Because he has none of ten commandments and carries a black stamp on his breast. A2455.3
• Dog driven away from other animals because of his barking. A2494.4.0.1
• Animal useful because of power of scenting. A2512
• Elder tree is never struck by lightning because it was used in making the cross. A2711.2.1
• Plant receives name because of service to Virgin Mary. A2711.4.3
• Devil throws sand at aspen: hence rough bark. Angered because aspens will not cease quivering. (Cf. A2751.2.1.) A2734.1
• Plant characteristic because plant belongs to the devil. A2743
• Formerly animals and man spoke the same language. God took the power of speech from the animals because men refused to kill speaking beasts. B210.3
• Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed. B259.1
• Bat in war of birds and quadrupeds. Because of ambiguous form joins first one side and then the other. Discredited. B261.1
• Helpful cow to be killed because of refusal to help stepdaughter. B335.7
• Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk. B391.1.2
• Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.) B766.1.1
• Monster born because of hasty (inconsiderate) wish of parents. C758.1
• Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. C841.0.1
• Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time. C916.4
• Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabu. C925
• Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu. C930.1
• Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.) C931
• Food supply fails because of broken tabu. C934
• Loss of crops because of broken tabu. C934.1
• Land made sterile because of broken tabu. C934.2
• Elves set country afire because of broken tabu. C934.3
• War lost because of breaking tabu. C936
• Immortality lost because of breach of tabu. C937.1
• Felled trees (cut weeds) return to their places because of broken tabu. C939.3
• Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
• Magic horse becomes powerless because of broken tabu. C942.2
• Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. C942.4
• Mouth expanded because of broken tabu. C948.1
• Man's liver snatched away because of broken tabu. C948.4
• Man's lungs cut out because of broken tabu. C948.5
• Face chilled because of broken tabu. C948.7
• [First Edition: C951. Girl carried off because of broken tabu. (Cf. C756.2.)] C951[1st ed.]
• Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.) C952
• Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu. C953
• Person must remain on mountain because of broken tabu. C983
• Disaster because of broken tabu. C984
• Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.) C984.1
• Storm because of broken tabu. C984.2
• Flood because of broken tabu. C984.3
• Sea rolls in over the land from all sides and a sea serpent comes because of broken tabu. C984.4.1
• Physical changes in person because of broken tabu. C985
• Skin changes color because of broken tabu. (Cf. C94.3.) C985.1
• Person falls because of broken tabu. C996
• Trees wither because of broken tabu. C998
• Transformation because of disobedience. D517
• Disenchantment fails because conditions are not fulfilled. D791.3
• Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
• Wagon refuses to move because ghost is sitting in it. (Cf. D1113, D1654.5.) D1317.10
• Thieves cannot cross a river because the water suddenly becomes too hot for them. D1389.2.2
• Magic powers fail because of lack of faith in them. D1741.4
• Dream warns of danger which will happen in near future. Because of advance knowledge, the danger is averted. D1810.8.3.2
• Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness. D2011
• Magic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. (Cf. C55, C940.1.) D2064.1
• Magic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) D2064.4
• Insanity because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) D2065.5