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• Woman who fell from the sky. – Daughter of the sky-chief falls from the sky, is caught by birds, and lowered to the surface of the water. She becomes the creator. A21.1
• Sun caught in snare. A728
• Sun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing night. A728.3
• Why one presents stranger with first fish caught. A1528
• Cat from transformed eagle. Eagle mistakes stick of wood for fish and gets feet caught. Wind blows off feathers and makes hair. (Cf. A1710.) A1811.1
• Raven caught in smoke-hole: hence is black. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5.) A2218.1
• Why fish are caught in nets. (Cf. Type 253.) A2465.1
• Animal's habits when caught. A2466
• Why opossum plays dead when caught. A2466.1
• Why turtle beats with forelegs when caught. A2466.2
• Mermaid caught by fishermen. B81.13.11.1
• Merman caught by fisherman (released). B82.6
• Helpful, strong horse caught. B312.5
• Tabu: wife eating first animal caught in trap. C221.4.1
• Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. C221.4.2
• Transformation: blood to milk. Bird caught and told to make milk bleeds and blood turns to milk. D457.1.2
• Transformation to be picked up (caught). D646
• Transformation to fish to be caught. D646.1
• Charm prevents fish being caught. (Cf. D1273.) D1449.4
• Speech magically recovered when certain bird is caught. D2025.2
• Fish caught in waterless field. D2106.1.1.1
• Pixies (little people unseen but often audible and occasionally caught). F200.1
• Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands. F451.3.2.1.2
• Dwarf caught by beard in cleft of tree. (Cf. F451.2.3.1.) F451.6.1
• Unbaptized children as nightmares. When caught, they beg baptism. Usually they are murdered illegitimates. F471.1.3
• Salmon caught out of season for saint. F986.2
• Satan liberates caught deer. G303.9.9.21
• Catching the devil. The devil is caught with the help of a sacred article (rosary, scapular) or some other thing (band for binding breeches, a switch of the rowan-tree). G303.16.19.18
• Ogre caught in noose and killed. G514.3
• Ogresses caught in flood of lava. G514.6
• Recognition of disenchanted person by thread in his teeth. As werwolf he has torn woman's apron and caught thread in teeth. H64.1
• Riddle: deaths from sleepiness, anger, and greed. Elephant sleeps before snake's hole. Snake bites elephant and kills it. Jackal eats hole in elephant and is caught inside. Snake can't get out of its hole. H803
• Wedge test. Hero is caught in cleft of tree. H1532
• Association of rat with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. The rat threatened by the weasel and the owl allies himself with a cat caught in a net. Saved by the cat, he rescues the cat with precaution and then prudently renounces further relations with her. J426
• Fowler wants two rubies as ransom for a caught goose; loses goose and both rubies. J514.6
• Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
• The swallow and the hemp-seeds. Swallow in vain urges other birds to eat seed as fast as it is sowed. Ridiculed, he builds his nest among the dwellings of men. Later, birds are caught in nets made from the hemp. J621.1
• Throstle giving all attention to sweet fruits is caught by bird catcher. J651.1
• Swallows warn other birds against roosting in tree with glue. They disregard and are caught. J652.2
• Birds discuss the trap. One of them is caught in it. J655.1
• Fox jeers at fox-trap. Is caught. J655.2
• Truth the best policy. Servant about to be caught for theft rehearses the lie he is to tell his master. He finds lies so transparent that he decides to tell the truth. J751.1
• Quails caught in net rise up in a body with net and escape. As soon as they quarrel they are caught. J1024
• Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. J1143
• Tailor caught resting his head on royal robe while he rests tells king there is no better resting place for king's robe, for "the head is the king of the body." J1289.19
• Thief's excuse: the big wind. Vegetable thief is caught in a garden. Owner: How did you get into the garden? A wind blew me in. How were the vegetables uprooted? If the wind is strong enough to blow me in, it can uproot them. How did they get into your bag? That is what I was just wondering. J1391.1
• The ladder market. A thief climbs over a wall by means of his ladder. When caught in the garden he says that he is a seller of ladders. Owner: "Is this a ladder market?" "Can't one sell ladders everywhere?" J1391.2
• The sheep's teeth. Two thieves caught with stolen sheep. One says that he told the other than sheep have lower teeth but no upper, and that they caught the sheep to see. J1391.3
• Bitten by the sheep. Man caught just as he knocks sheep in the head: The sheep bit me (or: I'm not going to let sheep butt me to death). J1391.3.1
• The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. "I am a fool." "Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?" "I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool." J1393
• Mill has given birth to horse. Jackal as judge comes late. "Tank of water caught fire." J1531.1.1
• Crab caught on tiger's tail thought to be pursuing man. J1762.3
• Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him. J1872
• Getting the calf's head out of the pot. A calf gets its head caught in a pot. A fool cuts off the calf's head and then breaks the pot to get it out. J2113
• Bees caught in sack which is opened at home. J2131.2.1
• Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.) J2131.5
• Trickster puts on buffalo skull: gets head caught. J2131.5.1
• Numskull licks out pot: gets it caught on his head. J2131.5.2
• Jackal's head caught in pot of blue dye. Animals make him king, but detect him from his cry and turn him out. J2131.5.6
• Coyote wears fox's rattle; caught in brush and injured. J2136.1
• Trickster gets caught on a fishhook. J2136.2
• Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances." J2136.3
• Careless thief caught. J2136.5
• Thief stops to admire beautiful things before stealing them. Caught. J2136.5.1
• Thief debates whether to take one thing or another. Caught. J2136.5.1.1
• Talkative thief caught. J2136.5.2
• Foolish thief asks help of owner. Caught. (Cf. J2223.) J2136.5.6
• Thieving numskull beats drum (blows trumpet, etc.) he finds in outhouse. Caught. J2136.5.7
• Thieving wolf persuaded to sing. Caught. J2136.5.9
• Animal caught in animal carcass. (Cf. J2131.5.) J2136.6
• Greedy jackal caught in carcass of dead bullock. J2136.6.1
• The bear riding the horse lets his paws fall on the horse's flanks. He is caught on a tree and leaves his claws in the horse's flesh. J2187
• Husband refuses to believe that his wife is unfaithful, even when she is caught in the act. J2342.1
• Fox holds conversation with his members, attracts attention, and is caught. He scolds in turn his feet, eyes, ears, and tail. In his excitement he sticks out his tail from his hiding place. J2351.1
• Daw tries to carry off lamb like eagle. Is caught in the lamb's fleece. J2413.3
• Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song. J2417.1
• Bungling rescuer caught by crab. He tries to rescue woman caught by crab. Is caught himself and found in embarrassing position. J2675
• Telling their horses apart. One fool docks the tail of his horse; the horse of the second gets tail caught in gate, is docked too. One notches ear of his horse; the second horse notches its ear on the fence. Finally they measure heights of their horses. The black horse is two inches taller than the white. J2722
• The horse swifter than the rain. Caught in the rain, a trickster finds that his horse will not budge. He undresses, puts his clothes under the horse's belly and keeps them dry. When he reaches the king, he reports that his horse has run so fast that he has had no time to get wet. The king buys the horse. K134.2
• Drinkers argue about who is to pay. They blindfold the bartender who is to catch one of them; the one who is caught will have to pay. While the bartender is blindfolded, the drinkers leave the tavern. K233.2
• Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
• Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. K494
• Man steps aside so that only his shadow is caught. K525.2
• Animal jumps out of skin so that only skin is caught. K525.4
• Escape by falsely reporting one's ability to escape. "I should be caught if there were not an escape at the back." When the captors run to the rear, the captive escapes. K542
• Fox to crocodile who has caught him by the tongue: "Those are the dirty clothes I've been washing!" She lets go. K543.1
• Escape by alleged possession of external soul. Monkey caught for his heart (as remedy) makes his captor believe that he has left his heart at home. K544
• Birds caught in net fly away with it. K581.4.1
• Woman persuaded to hide head in jug: she is caught. K714.5
• Capture by hiding in animal carcass. Animal who comes to eat of carcass caught. K751.1
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Fox eats cake: gets brass pot caught on neck. K1022.6
• Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught. K1026
• Jackal puts head in anus of sham-dead camel: caught and punished. K1036.1.1
• Dupe wishing to learn to play fiddle has finger caught in cleft of tree. K1111.0.1
• Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. K1111.1
• Dupe caught in crack in ground. Dies. K1111.2
• The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught. K1115
• Lover caught in roof. K1211.1