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• Early period when gods and men lived together, gods ruling men, ordaining how they should live and originating various customs. A189.9
• Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised. A632
• Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855. A633
• 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
• Distribution of noses. The earlier comers receive big noses, the later small. A1316.1
• Origin of death when early people put on new skins. Child fails to recognize mother, who puts old skin back on. A1335.4
• Origin of the Tuatha Dé Danann regarded as an early tribe. A1611.5.4.3
• Origin of pearls. A2827
• Dragon's pearl stolen. B11.6.2.3
• Pearl-dropping cow. B103.1.2.1
• Magic tortoise fed with salt gives pearls. B103.1.6
• Deer with string of pearls around its neck. B105.2
• Magic spider catches pearls. B109.1
• Centipede plays at night with pearl. B109.2
• Wedding of fox and hyena. Fox refuses to marry hyena, since, according to belief, hyena yearly changes sex. B281.1
• Hyena changes sex yearly. B754.1.1
• Swans live on pearls. B768.3
• Tabu: giving child a name lest it die early. C437
• Tabu: boasting of fearlessness. C455
• Compulsion to perform certain task yearly. C684
• Compulsion to catch blackbird alive yearly. C684.1
• Compulsion to kill one of certain hogs yearly. C684.2
• Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. C684.3
• Transformation: peas to pearls. D475.4.4
• Yearly transformation. D624
• Yearly transformation to person of different sex. D624.3
• Magic tortoise shell produces pearls. (Cf. D1029.6.) D1469.14
• Magic pearls cure disease. D1500.1.9.2
• Transportation by magic pearl. (Cf. D1071.) D1520.29.1
• Magic pearl draws storm away. (Cf. D1071.) D1541.2.2
• Wild hunt appears yearly at same moment. E501.11.3.2
• Revenant revisits earth yearly. E585.4
• Fairy's tears pearls. F239.6
• Fairies as descendants of early race of gods. F251.1
• Water-spirits take revenge if yearly tribute is not given. F420.5.2.6.1
• Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
• Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
• Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
• Kingdom where everything is of pearl. F707.4
• Island of pearls. F731.6
• Otherworld island grows foot yearly. F734
• Mountain formed of a pearl. F752.3.1
• Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
• Tree bears fruit three times yearly. (Cf. F811.7.1.1.) F811.18
• Pavement of pearl. F865.1
• Sun sets early to hide fugitive. (Cf. R310.) F961.1.10
• Animals live on pearls. F989.22.4
• Earl throws jar of water after undesired messenger. F1041.16.11
• Witch returns late home and leaves early. G249.4
• Monsters. Usually not clearly defined. See this entire chapter on ogres. G301
• Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.) Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100–199 and G500–699.) G303
• Devil (gentleman) invites traveler into his wagon. Explains that his horses are Earl X, etc. (Cf. G303.25.17.1.) G303.7.1.2.2
• Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. G303.16.16
• Earl king. Child-stealing ogre. (Cf. F321.5.) G305
• Recognition by ability to shed pearls for tears. H31.7.1
• Pearls from hair as sign of royalty. H71.3
• Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors. H335.4.3
• Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
• "Never greet anyone." (Start your work the earliest, so that not you but others may greet you.) H588.12
• "If you have to go to a prostitute, go early in the morning." H588.17
• Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old). H611.3
• Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
• Task: capturing blackbird (yearly). H1154.7.2
• Quest for unpierced pearls. H1348.2
• Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough. H1407
• Fearless traffic with devils. H1420
• Fearless traffic with ghosts. H1430
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened with cold water. H1441
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened by eels put down his back. H1441.1
• "Start your journey early in the day": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.19
• "Rise earlier": counsel proved wise by experience. Man seeking explanation for being in debt arises earlier and catches his servants stealing. (Cf. H588.1.) J21.23
• Early death with fame preferred. J216.5
• Birds seeking richer lands are nearly all killed. Survivors advise their friends to let well enough alone. J513.1
• Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
• Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment. J866.1
• The cock and the pearl: prefers a single corn to a peck of pearls. J1061.1
• Largest part of a prize to go to the guilty man. In order to obtain the prize, he confesses the earlier crime. J1141.1.1
• Cardinal's clever decision: that the monks who arise earliest may sound matins. There had been a great argument over this privilege. J1179.13
• Impossible to eat pearls: also impossible for woman to bear animals (objects). J1191.5.1
• Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. J1289.12
• Man who rises too early. The king in order to correct the habit has him robbed. He says that robbers get up even earlier than he. J1394.2
• Harvesting early for half a crop. J1932.6
• Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish. J2081.2
• Boy refuses pearls for worthless stones; jeweler recognizes them for what they are. J2093.3.1
• Dearly bought disgrace. A foolish priest is pushed into the water. "I wish I had drowned; then you would all have been disgraced." J2185
• Fool waits for God to provide. Nearly starves. J2215.4
• The tailless and earless ass. Just lain down to sleep, a man is awakened by a neighbor announcing that his she-ass has borne a young one without ears or tail. The man lies awake all night wondering how the ass will keep the harness on. J2373
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) K306.3
• Respite from death until minister shows king how to reap pearls. K551.21
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Earl killed in combat with man he has undertaken to kill. K1626.1
• Maids must rise even earlier. They have killed the cock for waking them too early, but their mistress punishes them. K1636
• Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. K1691.2
• Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. Ogre overawed. K1718.2
• Impostor claims to be earl's son in exile. K1952.4
• Men are fearless: tiger made to frighten them. L482.4
• Devil to help gambler in exchange for one task yearly. M214
• Prophecy: early death. M341.1.2
• Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) M365