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• God lays foundations of earth. A141.4
• God as founder and protector of certain peoples. A184
• Earth founded on stone. A849.1
• Spring breaks forth where saint's stolen cow is found. A941.5.5
• Lost wind found in hollow tree: has been banished and is needed by men. A1122.3
• Origin of fire – found in person's own body. A1414.2
• Why carpenters are found everywhere: flood scatters them on raft over world. A1445.2.1
• Habitat of animal. The country or locality in which animal is found. A2434
• Why certain animals are found everywhere. A2434.1
• Why particular animals are not found in certain place. A2584
• Dragon as power of evil. So considered everywhere except in the East, where are also found beneficent dragons. B11.9
• Treasure found in slain helpful animal. B100.1
• When destructive bird is killed, barn is found full of gold. B103.7.1
• Ass alone knows where hidden wind can be found. B133.0.1.1
• City founded on spot where cow lies down. B155.2
• Village founded on spot when cock crows, dog barks, and mithian bellows. B155.2.1
• Disenchantment by hiding skin (covering). When the enchanted person has temporarily removed the covering, it is stolen and the victim remains disenchanted until it is found. D721.2
• Disenchantment by being found when lost. D783
• Maiden disenchanted, deserted, and refound. D795
• Magic object found. D840
• Magic object accidentally found. D841
• Magic object found on grave. D842
• Magic object found on mother's grave. (Cf. D815.1.) D842.1
• Magic object found on father's grave. D842.2
• Magic object found on grave of slain helpful animal. D842.3
• Magic object found in underground room. D845
• Magic object found in giant's cave. D845.1
• Magic object found in magic castle. D846
• Golden cot found in magic castle. D846.1
• Magic object found in chimney. D847
• Magic object found – miscellaneous. D849
• Magic object found in fort. D849.1
• Magic object found on an island. D849.3
• Magic object found in a wood. D849.4
• Magic object found in garden. D849.4.1
• Magic object found in fish. D849.5
• Magic object found in heart of whale. D849.5.1
• Magic object found under dead girl's tongue. D849.6
• Magic object found on ground. D849.8
• Saint's bell lands at place where monastery is to be founded. D1314.4.0.1
• Rubies found in whirlpool in sea. D1467.2
• Indelible writing: the scraped word found written as before. (Cf. D1266.1.) D1654.3.1.1
• Lost object or person found by holy man. D1810.0.3.2
• Omen at laying foundation of building. D1812.5.2.8
• Lost object found by throwing spade at ghost. Where spade sticks one will find the lost object. D1816.2.1
• Death postponed if substitute can be found. D1855.2
• Treasure found by sprinkling ground with blood of white cock. (Cf. D1314.) D2101.1
• Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) D2145.2.2.1
• Supernatural agency moves new church foundation (or building materials) to another site, at night. D2192.1
• Resuscitation of dead by making image of deceased of breadfruit wood. When spirit enters this, image disappears and person is found alive. E53.2
• Human bone, found in demon's stomach wrapped in silk with bow and arrow, becomes a boy. E149.1
• Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found. E234.4
• Crash as of breaking glass, though no glass is found broken. E402.1.6
• Ghost unlaid until iron he hid in life is found. E415.1.1
• Lovers buried apart found in one grave each morning. (Cf. E631.0.1.) E419.6
• God descends to found royal dynasty. F32.1
• Contrasting qualities found in otherworld garden. F162.1.2
• Beautiful woman found in bed with man after he has plugged keyholes to keep elves out. F304.3
• Unbaptized child stolen by fairies found in barn and rescued. F321.3.1
• Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing. F329.3
• Lost fairy child found by mortals. Mortals feed, warm it, keep it until one day it hears voice calling: "Coleman Grey!" It leaves with the remark "Ho! ho! ho! My Daddy's come!" F329.4.1
• Fairy child found and cared for, but it pines away. F329.4.2
• Water-spirits adopt human foundling. F420.5.1.9
• Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold. F481.0.1.4
• Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. F647.9.1
• Castle revolving at night so that entrance cannot be found. F771.2.6.2
• Flower only to be found at midnight. F814.3
• Image with pointing finger. Inscription says, "Dig here." Treasure etc. found when directions are followed. F855.1
• Sea animal found inland. F989.12
• Witch recognized when skin of witch is found with soul absent. (Cf. G229.1.1.) G251.2
• Witch kills with aid of witch-ball (hair rolled in beeswax). The ball is sometimes found in the mouth of dead victims. G262.4
• Devil visits woman and founds a family. (Cf. G303.11.) G303.12.4
• Lost husband's bones found among cannibals. G691.4
• Identification by hair found floating on water. H75.1
• Recognition by hair found in a fish which has swallowed it. H75.3
• Recognition through gold found in eagle's nest. H91.1
• Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon. H101
• Answers found in other world to riddles propounded on way. H544
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• Answer to riddle found by trickery. H573
• One traveler to another (when asked how he crossed an unbridged stream): I cross on an ashen bridge. (Found a ford with an ashen staff.) H586.6
• Riddle: seven tongues in a head. (A horse's head in which a bird's nest is found with seven birds in it.) H793
• Objects of quest found in deserted castle where hero is served by unseen hands. H1239.2
• Answers found in other world to questions propounded on the way. (Cf. H1278, H1282, H1283, H1284.) H1292
• "Don't do anything without investigation": counsel proved wise by experience. A purse full of money was found in dead man's pocket by gravedigger. J21.48
• Among many vain words may be found some of wisdom. J263
• Aesop with the unbent bow. Upbraided when found playing with children, he unstrings a bow and shows how good relaxation is. J553.1
• Monkeys planning to found a city desist lest with walls up it will be easier to catch them than before. J648.1
• Consolation for misfortune found in food. J861
• Stag found by master when overlooked by servants. Hides under hay and escapes until master himself comes. J1032
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• Not the same purse as was lost. Finder of a purse containing 800 gulden returns it to owner for reward. Latter says that purse had 900 gulden in it. In court. Decision: The rich man speaks truth. The purse found is not the one he lost. The finder may keep it. J1172.1
• Dividing four coins among three persons. Two coins apiece given to two; other is to wait till two more coins are found. J1241.2
• The abbot's luxury and the cardinal's. Cardinal rebukes abbot for living in luxury beyond that of the founder of his order. Abbot asks cardinal if the cardinals of St. Peter traveled in the luxury he does. J1263.4.1
• The same company of fools. An abbot calls the monks together and asks, "Whom from all you fools can I appoint as steward?" A monk answers, "That should not be difficult since an abbot was found from the same company of fools." J1265.3
• To be rewarded by his kind. Unworthy person is rewarded. Asks worthy one: "Why is it that I am rewarded and you are not?" Answer: "Because you have found more of your kind than I have of mine." (Also told of Dante and a minstrel.) J1364
• Man decides to spend 100 florins to become known. Friend: "You had better spend 200 so as to not be found out." J1369.1
• Three reasons for refusing credit. A man asks for credit, although he has always paid cash before. He is refused on these grounds: either (1) he has never found anyone to trust him, (2) he has never bought anything, or (3) he is rich and does not need an extension of time. J1552.2
• God's omniscience. A woman tells her brother of God's omniscience. When he is ill and the priest has been called, he creeps under some straw and hides. The priest leaves. The man: "If God were so omniscient he might have found me for the priest." J1617
• Poet uses words which student cannot understand and so confounds him. (Cf. J1803.) J1684