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• Eclipses caused by animal hiding sun behind his body. A737.6
• Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. A941.5.4
• Coyote burnt when hay is set afire: hence yellow patch behind his ears. A2218.4
• Discourteous answer: why crab has eyes behind. (Cf. A2332.4.1.) A2231.1.3
• Why crab lifts eye out of body or has eye behind. (Cf. A2231.10, A2231.1.3.) A2332.4.2
• Why coyote has yellow patch behind his ears. (Cf. A2218.4.) A2412.1.3
• Bird reveals dead rider. Calls out in human voice at seeing living woman riding behind dead man. B131.4
• Mare with foal left behind finds road home. The foal is left so that the force of nature in the mare will discover the unknown road home. B151.1.1.1
• Tabu: woman in other world forbidden to look behind curtains. C336
• Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path. D672
• Magic pistol forces one to run behind the ball. (Cf. D1096.2.) D1526.3
• Magic object answers for fugitive. Left behind to impersonate fugitive and delay pursuit. D1611
• Sword leaves no trace of blow behind it. (Cf. D1081, D1564.7, F833.) D1666
• Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.) E272.2
• Ghost leaves behind a crucifix. E544.1.1
• Ghost jumps on horse behind man. (Cf. E262.) E581.2.1
• Ghost leaves stench behind. E588
• Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld. F102.3
• People in otherworld with horses both before and behind wagon. They pull against each other. F171.6.4
• Fairy rides behind man on horse. F366.2.2
• Extraordinary companion hides behind hero to trick enemy. F601.4.1
• Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him. F681.13
• Tigress swallows abandoned baby again and again, but it comes out from behind. F914.3
• Giant magic boar slain by tearing out entrails from behind. F981.8
• The devil creates devils by casting water behind himself. G303.1.4.1
• Five devils created by Adam create other devils in the same manner. Adam has created five devils by wetting five fingers with dew and shaking them behind him; God had commanded him to wet one finger. (Cf. G303.1.4.1.) G303.1.5
• Symbolic interpretation of sin. Priest drags heavy sack of sand behind him to show how men drag sin. (Cf. H604, H605.) H606
• Hare and pig race across ditch. Each fails in his own way, pig behind hare. Which is winner? H625
• Riddle: four hang, four walk, two show the road, one wags behind. (Cow's teats, feet, eyes, tail.) (Other answers: cat, dog, horse, hog, etc.) H743
• Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him. J1041.2
• Detection by pitch-trap. Pitch is spread so that footprints are left in it, or that shoe is left behind as clue. J1146.1
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire. J1175.1
• Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" J1485
• What is behind you. Woman tells husband she has cooked what is behind him. He sees the door there and tries to cook it. J2485
• Contest in jumping from the church tower. The devil is not to look behind him. The man runs downstairs (or otherwise cheats). K17.2
• Dupe, made to believe that trickster becomes a wolf when he yawns three times, flees and leaves his clothes behind him. K335.0.4.1
• Porcupine, made to believe that rabbit's ears are horns, flees and leaves food behind. K335.0.4.2
• Frightened robber leaves his coat behind. K335.1.0.1
• Cheat induces dupe to go get food reported found and steals clothes as soon as they are left behind. K343.5
• Escape by leaving behind false images made of spittle. K525.10
• Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. K832.2
• Giant impales self on javelin fugitive holds behind himself. K897.2.1
• Murder from behind. K959.4
• Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent. K1182
• Paramour hidden behind a screen. K1521.5
• Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband. K1521.5.1
• Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased. K1533
• Boys threaten to harness tiger. They have jumped on him from behind and he cannot see. He buys them off. K1714
• Man behind statue (tree) speaks and pretends to be God (spirit). K1971
• Husband answers behind the statue when wife wants to know how to fool him. He says to feed him well. K1971.1
• Man behind the tree threatens his debtor. The latter thinks God is calling and repays the debt. K1971.2
• Boy behind the tree tells woman about the bad food he gets. She thinks God is speaking and gives him good food. K1971.3
• Maid behind statue of Virgin advises the mistress to give the servants better food. K1971.3.1
• Husband behind saint's statue advises wife to spin. K1971.4
• Wife behind tree advises husband against having his wife work. K1971.4.1
• Husband as God behind the tree forces his wife to confess adultery. K1971.5
• Man as God behind the tree forces the girl to admit having an illegitimate child. Or prophesies himself as father so as to marry the girl. K1971.5.1
• Girl behind the tree advises the unwilling suitor. Believing it to be the advice of angels, he marries her. K1971.6
• Wife behind tree advises the husband about his marital duties. K1971.6.1
• The man behind the crucifix says "Good Evening" to the drunk man, who thinks Christ is speaking to him. K1971.7
• Hidden man behind image gives unwelcome answer to suppliant: image blamed. K1971.8
• Sexton behind crucifix tells old maid she will have no husband; she tells Christ Child that he knows nothing about it, she is praying to his mother. K1971.8.1
• Sexton behind statue tells old maid praying for a husband to raise her foot to her neck. K1971.9
• Man hidden behind idol in temple tells robbers they will have good booty but should leave half of it in the temple. K1971.14
• Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind. K2033
• Page is duped into hiding under woman's bed (behind curtain). K2112.2.2
• Hag offers to run race with men on condition that the one left behind shall be beheaded. Marvelous runner beheads hag. M221.1
• Formula for girl fleeing: behind me night, etc. "Behind me night and before me day that no one shall see where I go." R255
• Death by dragging behind horse. S117
• Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner." T257.4
• Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched. T386
• Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. X1233.2.1
• The boy in the hollow tree. He frightens the woodchopper who leaves behind his horse. X1854.1