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- Heaven and earth originally connected by navel string. Navel string cut. A625.2.1
- Origin of customs connected with birth. A1560
- Tabu connected with puberty. C130
- Tabu connected with menses. C140
- Tabu connected with childbirth. C150
- Tabu connected with marriage. C160
- Tabu connected with marriage – miscellaneous. C169
- Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
- Customs connected with unique compulsion. C650.1
- Tabus connected with other-world journeys. C710
- Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
- Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies. E765.1.3
- Tabus connected with fairy gifts. F348
- Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.) F378
- Miscellaneous motifs connected with water-spirits. F420.7
- Extraordinary occurrence connected with sea. F931
- Extraordinary occurrences connected with rivers. F932
- Extraordinary occurrences connected with springs. F933
- Extraordinary occurrences connected with lakes. F934
- Extraordinary occurrences connected with pond (pool, tank). F935
- Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes. F1015
- Tests connected with marriage. H300
- 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
- Men shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161]). J87
- Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence. J1150
- Practical retorts connected with almsgiving. J1580
- Absurd practices connected with crops. J1932
- Deception connected with adultery. K1500
- Other deceits connected with adultery. K1580
- Promises connected with death. M250
- Prophecies connected with journeys. M358
- Various prophecies connected with saints (or holy men). M364
- Customs connected with kings. P13
- Other motifs connected with kings. P19
- Customs connected with eating and food. P634.0.1
- Customs connected with dueling. P677
- Other sacred objects connected with worship. V130
- Guilty of everything connected with the seven senses. When the priest to whom he is confessing says there are but five senses, the magistrate says that he needs two more senses than other people. X331