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• Creative mother source of everything. A3
• Saint goes to heaven every Thursday (each day) and talks with angels. A182.3.0.3.1
• Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855. A633
• Universe from pre-existing rocks. Originally rocks are assumed and everything is made from them. A644
• Sun as fire rekindled every morning. A712
• 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
• Primeval water: In the beginning everything is covered with water. A810
• Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
• Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc. A1346.2
• First people have everything they wish (life without work). A1346.2.2
• Why carpenters are found everywhere: flood scatters them on raft over world. A1445.2.1
• Why a lamp must be lighted in a house at least every fortnight. A1599.14
• Fly steals fire from spider: may eat everywhere. Spider brings fire from hell. Fly steals it from him on the way. (Cf. A2545.1.) A2229.4
• Why monkey has first fruits of harvest in every field. A2433.3.19.1
• Why certain animals are found everywhere. A2434.1
• Why birds are everywhere. A2434.1.1
• Why bluebirds are everywhere. A2434.1.2
• Why snowbirds are everywhere. A2434.1.3
• Why black ants are everywhere. A2434.1.4
• Why jackal may go everywhere. A2434.1.5
• Why animals eat everything without salt. A2435.2.1
• Why ants fall upon every man. A2479.7
• Why dog snaps every fly. Fly laughed at dog's (feigned) death. A2479.8
• Why sorrel grows on certain rock every winter. A2771.7
• Why beans bear everywhere. A2793.1.1
• Dragon eats an ox at every meal. B11.6.7
• Dragon as power of evil. So considered everywhere except in the East, where are also found beneficent dragons. B11.9
• Devastating birds wither everything with their breath. B33.1.1
• Treasure-laying bird. Bird lays money or golden eggs or an egg at every step. B103.2.1
• Bird shows way by dropping feathers every seven steps. B151.2.0.1
• Magic horse mysteriously recognized by everyone. B184.1.9
• Magic animal used by hero in contest grows bigger with every round. B195
• Man attempts to kill faithful serpent at wife's instigation. Loses everything. B335.1
• Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black. B731.4
• Hound of every color. B731.6
• Stag with stripe of every color. B731.7.1
• Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring. B784.0.1
• Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body. B784.1.4
• Unique prohibition. A person is forbidden to do one particular thing; everything else he is free to do. C600
• Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
• Compulsion to give food to everyone met on journey. C675
• Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. C751.6
• Every piece of shattered cowrie-shell turns into an armed man. D432.2.1
• Midas' golden touch. Everything touched turns to gold. D565.1
• Young man issues from conch-shell every evening. D621.6
• Transformation to werwolf every Friday night. D622.1
• Transformation every ten days. D623
• Fairies become birds every other year. D624.2
• Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
• Magic stone hits everything and returns by itself. (Cf. D931.) D1401.5
• Magic stone turns everything to gold. (Cf. D1470.1.1., D931.) D1466.1
• Magic water furnishes treasure. Everything it touches turns to gold. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1467
• Magic spittle controls rain. Makes rain on everyone but possessor of spittle himself. (Cf. D1001.) D1542.1.2
• Charm gives invisibility and power of moving everywhere. (Cf. D1273.) D1561.2.4
• Magic needle makes everything fall to pieces. (Cf. D1181.) D1562.4
• Sword causes a man's death every time it is drawn. D1653.1.1.1
• King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
• Goat appears to be two every time man aims. D2031.15
• Sheep or cattle disappear every night. D2087.3
• Cow and cowherd disappear every New Year's night. D2087.3.1
• Men disappear every night. D2087.4
• Man with power to make everything freeze. Wears cap over ear. Should he wear it straight everything would freeze. D2144.1.2
• Local winter. Winter produced in one place while it is summer everywhere else. D2145.1.1
• King eaten every morning: revived daily. E155.6
• Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. E211.2
• Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. E266.1.1
• Dead man visits his wife every night. E321.2.2
• Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body. E422.1.9
• Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people. E482
• Wild hunt appears every seven years. E501.11.3.1
• Dead person visits earth every seven years. E585.1
• Spectre rides to castle every seven years. E585.2
• Revenant revisits earth every day. E585.3
• Soul forgets everything at birth. E705
• Soul hidden in apple (ball) in a salmon which appears every seven years in certain fountain. (Cf. D1651.10.) E713.1
• Land where everyone is wise, from the raja on his throne to the beggar in the bazaar. F129.6
• Fairies' mare foals every year on first of May. F241.1.2.2
• Spirits receive their share of everything made at certain specified times. F417
• Water-spirit claims a life every seven years. F420.5.2.1.6
• Dwarf king Hibich comes to surface every 500 years. F451.6.12
• Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters. F667.2
• Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal. F681.8
• Land of plenty. Yields everything to heart's desire. F701
• Kingdom where everything is of gold. F707.1
• Kingdom where everything is of silver. F707.2
• Kingdom where everything is of diamond. F707.3
• Kingdom where everything is of pearl. F707.4
• Island rises once every seven years. F735.0.2
• City with hundred palaces and gardens; in one everything is of gold, in another, silver, etc. F761.1.1
• Town where everything is sold at one price. F769.1
• Castle in which everyone is asleep. F771.4.4
• Castle shall stand when everything else has departed (Gimle and Brimir). F771.10
• Windows and doors for every day in year. 365 windows and doors in castle or church. F782.1
• Grass grows anew every night. F817.2
• Sword cuts everything. F833.5
• Wind serves Solomon as horse and carries him everywhere. F963.1
• Grass grows anew every night. (Cf. F971.1.3.) F979.18
• Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. F986.3
• The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. F1015.1.1
• Devil may be escaped by going to church every day. G303.16.13