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• Creative mother source of everything. A3
• 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-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 animals eat everything without salt. A2435.2.1
• Devastating birds wither everything with their breath. B33.1.1
• Man attempts to kill faithful serpent at wife's instigation. Loses everything. B335.1
• Unique prohibition. A person is forbidden to do one particular thing; everything else he is free to do. C600
• Midas' golden touch. Everything touched turns to gold. D565.1
• 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 needle makes everything fall to pieces. (Cf. D1181.) D1562.4
• Man with power to make everything freeze. Wears cap over ear. Should he wear it straight everything would freeze. D2144.1.2
• Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people. E482
• Soul forgets everything at birth. E705
• Spirits receive their share of everything made at certain specified times. F417
• 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
• 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 shall stand when everything else has departed (Gimle and Brimir). F771.10
• Sword cuts everything. F833.5
• Explanation of phenomenon; a man who not only picks up wood but everything that lies in his path (a miser). H614.1
• Quest for the anger of God. Man is so fortunate that people say that he has everything but the anger of God. He seeks it and finds it with much misfortune. H1376.3.1
• Test of curiosity: mouse in jug. The new Eve. A woman has boasted of a lack of curiosity and blamed Mother Eve. The king entertains her in his castle. She may see everything but must not look into a certain silver jug. She does so and finds a mouse in it. (Cf. H1557.2.) H1554.1
• Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
• Holy man's prayer reforms rich man. Holy man prays, "May God bless everything here that is good but cause to disappear all that is bad." Everything disappears. J153.1
• In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
• Better be content with what you have, than try to get more and lose everything. J346
• The one exception. "You are a good man; there is not your equal on the earth. You have everything for yourself alone; only your wife is public property." J1355
• When Caleb comes. Man attempts to stay in haunted house all night. One cat after another enters, says, "Everything will be all right when Caleb comes, won't it?" (or something similar). Man finally says, "When Caleb comes, tell him I was here and left." He leaves. J1495.2
• Wife surrendered to king. Vizier advises doctor to give up his wife to love-sick prince since everything belongs to a sovereign. Doctor then tells him prince is in love not with his (the doctor's) wife but with the vizier's. J1511.19
• Sharing his wounds. Two men on parting agree to share everything they receive. One returns with much money. His friend reminds him of the pact. He replies that he has also received many wounds. The friend is willing to forego dividing. J1621
• Kernel tries to escape death. A fool eats nuts. A kernel slips from him. The fool: "Everything tries to escape from death." J1875.1
• Short-sighted wish: Midas's touch. Everything to turn to gold. J2072.1
• "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked. J2489.9
• "Pick up everything!" The youth so instructed picks up too much. The master then tells him to pick things up only when the master gives the signal. The master falls into a hole and cannot give the signal. J2516.2
• "Pick up everything!" Fool loads his master with horse dung. J2516.2.1
• Dissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in league. K1088
• Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered. K1155
• Futile moving to avoid death. Man told by Death he will die where he stands sells everything and moves to another town. He goes for a ride on a mare which runs away with him and throws him on the spot he so dreads, killing him. M382
• Gambler loses everything. (Cf. N2.5.) N9.1
• Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wager. N11
• Clever king knows everything in advance. P12.7
• Wicked mother and her sons do everything to prevent daughter's marriage with beloved. P232.1
• Host treats guest with food and everything possible. P324.1
• Wife beats her husband and eats up everything he earns. T251.10
• Visiting friends take everything from house of dying man. W151.2
• Man who insists on using everything that is useful. W152.14
• The wife who saw double. Sees two plates where there are one, etc. Thinks two men are with her. Husband: "See everything double except your husband." X121
• 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
• Drunk man sees everything revolving and waits for his house to come to him. X815