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• 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
• Mouse gathers rice for man: may eat a little of his rice daily. A2223.3
• Will-o'-the-wisp is girl cursed by her mother for gathering plants for dyestuffs on Sunday. Will-o'-the-wisp is seen where girl disappeared. A2817.2
• Man falls in hole with horse; buzzards gather; he lassoes a number of buzzards, ties them together, frightens them; all fly at once, carry him from hole. (Tall tale.) B547.2.1
• Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
• Self-growing and self-gathering corn. (Cf. D965.8.) D1601.2
• Ghosts gathered on a bridge. E496
• Ghosts gather wood for hell fires. E755.2.4
• Girl gathering flowers swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. F92.2.1
• Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood. F171.6.5
• Icicles gathered by saint as firewood burn. F962.9
• Devil in woods to gather nuts on Christmas Eve. G303.8.13.3
• What is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The land on which the waters were gathered after the creation.) H822.1
• Task: gathering a necklace of rubies from the sea. H1023.21
• Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another. H1091.3
• Task: gathering all stones from brook or field. H1124
• Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
• 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: gathering wind in fists. H1136.2
• Thief followed home. A thief ransacks a man's house and departs. The man gathers together the rest of his belongings and tracks the thief. Comes to the thief's door. Thief: "What do you want with me?" "What, isn't this the house we set out for?" J1392.1
• Trees cut down to gather fruit. Penzer V 70f. J2126.1
• Gullible husband removes from wife's garment dust gathered while she lies with another man. J2301.3
• Entry by master thief into closely guarded city in wood-gatherer's basket. K312.2
• The ass without a heart. The ass as toll-gatherer is killed by the lion for asking for toll. The fox eats the ass's heart. When the lion asks for it, the fox replies that the ass could have had no heart since he was such a fool as to ask the lion for toll. K402.3
• Host with overstock of sour wine spreads rumor of dragon at his house. A crowd gathers and he sells all his wine. K484.2
• Tiger enticed away to gather berries: victims escape. K629.2.1
• Fox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the water. K921
• Marooned egg-gatherer. The father-in-law has the youth hunt eggs on an island and deserts him, but the youth outwits him. K1616.1
• Postponing of payment asked in order to get time to gather reinforcements. K2369.4
• When hungry man tries to gather fruit it flies out of his reach. Q501.2.1
• Lovers meet at social gathering. T34
• Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. T92.14
• Dwarf king (fairy) laughs at the absurdities he sees about him. (1) Sees man who is to die that day complain that his shoes are too thin. (Cf. J2174.) (2) Sees women adorn their heads when they are immoral below. (Cf. J2050.) (3) Sees man remove from his wife's garment dust gathered while she lay with another man. (Cf. J2301.3.) (4) Sees persons making plans while forgetting to say, "If God wills." U15.0.1
• Vision in which king sees whelp reared by him gather dogs of Ireland and Britain against him but suffer death in battle at last. The whelp is one of king's two foster sons. V515.2.1.1