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• Goddess with body full of fire. A124.3
• Sun as grindstone full of fire. A714.5
• Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
• 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
• Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc. A1346.2
• Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. A1756
• Two animals learn songs together – one successfully, the other unsuccessfully. (Cf. A2425.) A2283
• When destructive bird is killed, barn is found full of gold. B103.7.1
• Wasp released from vase full of honey: grateful. B376
• Fancifully colored deer. B731.7
• Tabu: treating scornfully statue and dress of goddess. C51.1.13
• Magic appearance of human limbs. A boy has no hands and legs; his abandoned sister successfully commands them to appear or disappear. D61
• Store, fully supplied, produced by magic. D1149.1
• Magic bag full at high tide, empty at ebb tide. (Cf. D1193.) D1324.1
• Magic banana skin always full of fruit. D1652.1.7.2
• Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) D2145.2.2.1
• Ghosts walk at full moon. E587.6
• Corpse must be watched carefully before burial. E752.10.1
• Life token: leaves full from tree. (Cf. D955.) E761.7.3
• Eyes successfully replaced. E781
• Limbs successfully replaced. E782
• Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs and successfully uses them. E782.0.1
• Head cut off and successfully replaced. E783.1
• Heart successfully replaced. E786
• Forked glen full of toads, lions on way to otherworld. F144.1
• People in otherworld pour water into tub full of holes. F171.6.2
• Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) F335.1
• Dwarf. (Underground spirit.) The dwarf, especially in Northern Europe, is considered an underground spirit. He is to be distinguished from the other conception of dwarf, viz., a very small person, pigmy, or thumbling (F535). [Note: For help in the preparation of this item I am indebted to Mr. Alfred Thomas of Chicago. For full titles of references see F420.] F451
• Ausgelohnt. When dwarfs are paid in full for their work they cease helping mortals. F451.5.10.9
• "Cutty" cuts cords by which miners pull tubs full of coal. F456.3.1
• Hero's precocious strength. Has full strength when very young. F611.3.2
• Hero throws up a stone: before it falls, he drinks a full jar empty. F636.4.1
• Well flows full on Sunday. F718.7
• Underground palace full of jewels. F721.5.1
• Valley full of dreadful monsters. F756.5.1
• Apples at Christmas. Tree bears apples only at Christmas. Blossoms at midnight and is full of apples by morning. F971.5.2
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Devil disguised as man tells of trip to heaven and hell. Heaven is full of wretches who weep, fast, and pray. Hell is full of wealth, power, and good living. G303.9.7.4
• Devil serves knight faithfully. Devil saves his life and that of his wife. G303.22.10
• The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
• Father's counsel: the four wells. Three empty and one full (3 sons and father). Full one can fill the three empty but the three when full cannot fill the one when empty (sons when scattered will not support the father). H588.8
• Clever flatterer: Sir, you are a full moon, and my sovereign is a new moon (the full moon will decline, but the new moon has but started on its growth). H599.3
• Is town too full of anchorites? Saint entering holy town is sent cup full to brim of milk by its worldly-minded fakirs that he may know the town can hold no more anchorites. Saint floats a flower on milk and returns cup. H607.4
• How much water is in the sea? A tub-full if the tub is large enough. H696.1.3
• Riddle: what house was full of dead? (Philistines in the building demolished by Samson.) H831
• Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths). H1045
• Task: building granary full of grain overnight. H1104.5
• Task: gathering bed-tick full of harp strings. H1129.7
• Task: gathering vessel full of nail-scrapings. H1129.8
• Task: gathering crow's house full of wren's eggs. H1129.9
• Task: gathering fist-full of fleas. H1129.10
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Task: procuring four full-grown tigers to guard four gates of king's palace. H1154.3.7.1
• Task: procuring four full-grown peacocks to sit one on each of four golden pinnacles of palace room. H1154.7.3
• "Do not visit your friends often": counsel proved wise by experience. At last the man is treated shamefully. J21.9
• "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
• Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
• The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled. J355.1
• Barber tries unsuccessfully to become a trader. J513.2
• Woman tactfully restrains amorous king. J816.4
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees jealous husband who carefully guards wife cuckolded. J882.2
• Thief suspected of crawling through hole must take off clothes. He is full of scratches and confesses. J1141.7
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• Pouring water into the inkwell. Soldier accused of stealing slavegirl from author. Girl told to pour water into an inkwell. She does it so skillfully that she must have learned it from the author. J1176.1
• Measuring the dregs. Some full and some half-full wine casks left with man by neighbor, who accuses him of theft. Fraud of accusation detected by measuring the dregs. J1176.2
• The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
• The church his wife. Priest accused of being too intimate with parishioners' wives says that the church is his wife and that the men treat her far more shamefully than he treats any woman. J1264.1
• Pot full of milk as sign that city is full of fakirs; flower on top of milk not disturbing it as sign that one more will not matter. J1293.4
• Not in his line of business. At market a man enquires of another: "How is the moon, three-quarters or full?" "I don't know. I have neither bought nor sold one." J1354
• Fool cannot answer as his mouth is full; thought to have an abscess in cheeks, allows them to be cut open. J1842.2
• Numskulls buy things in common: each pays full price. J2037
• Numskulls buy church in common: each pays full price. J2037.1
• Three brothers buy cow for common use; each brother pays the farmer full price. J2037.2
• Woman disdainfully throws away pills; punished with sores on body, must use the pills to restore herself. J2075.3
• Numskull as thief's assistant wakens owner. Pleads successfully that he was trying to awaken the household and prevent theft. J2136.5.4
• England must be full of widows. So concludes widow's daughter, who makes her living by spinning, when she sees so much warm goods from England. J2214.11
• Would have shot himself. Fool shoots full of holes a garment left out at night to dry. "It is a good thing I did not have it on or I would have shot myself." J2235
• Man who asks for good weather given a box full of hornets. He thinks that it is filled with the weather. J2327
• Scientific query: why does the sea stink when it is full of salt? J2371.2
• Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.2
• Two jars full of live black wasps sold as interpreters of foreign language. K137.1
• God cheats the devil of his promised soul. The devil is to fill a cask full of money. God knocks the bottom out of the cask. K219.3
• Trickster fills his gallon jug half full of water, then has it filled with rum at the store. When seller refuses credit, he pours back half gallon of the liquid – now half rum and half water. Sometimes trickster repeats operation, getting richer mixture with each transaction. K231.6.2.2
• Thief successfully accuses owner of having stolen property he covets. K401.5
• Thief successfully claims that stolen goods are his own. K405
• Thief successfully claims that stolen image has been given him by the saint himself. K405.3
• Double reward successfully claimed. K441
• Money exacted from watchers who permit chest to be stolen. The chest is said falsely to be full of money and the watchers subject to severe punishment. K443.3.1
• Bag of cakes said to be full of cobras. Boy eats cakes. K444.2
• Pope escapes captivity and death by dressing in full regalia and overawing captor. K546
• Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee. K548.2
• Cannibal sent for water with vessel full of holes: victim escapes. K605
• Murder by feeding with bread full of pins. K951.2
• Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. K1321.1.2
• Paramour successfully hidden from husband. K1521
• Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). K1521.1
• Paramour successfully hidden in chest. K1521.2
• Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height. K1975
• Woman saves herself from soldiers by receiving them joyfully rather than fearfully. K2361
• Contest between wind (rain) and sun. Rain also tries unsuccessfully like wind. L351.1