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• The seven grain sisters. A433.2
• Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) A2238.1
• Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowl. A2238.2
• Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. A2275.6
• Dog's claws as grains under paws. In the great famine, God leaves the dog grain under his paws. From this grows new seed. A2376.2
• Why owl eats no grain. A2435.4.9.1
• Origin of straw. Formerly whole blade became grain. Straw left for dog. A2685.2
• Blood from wizard becomes red grain of cedar. Bleeding head of wizard who tries to kill the sun placed on top of a tree. (Cf. A2755.1.) A2731.3
• Origin of red grain of cedar. (Cf. A2731.3.) A2755.1
• Sundry characteristics of grains and vegetables. A2793
• Why grain of wheat is divided. A2793.2
• Why grain grows only at top of stalk (punishment for men's sinfulness). A2793.5
• Origin of shapes of grain. A2793.6
• Horse lies down when grain of wheat falls from load. B159.2
• Magic cock carries great loads in his ear (load of grain, fox, tiger, bees, wasps, etc., also fire and water). B171.1.0.1
• Grain as damages for injury to cat. B271.2
• Tabu: plucking ear of grain. C512
• Tabu: using grain to clean child. C851.1.2
• Transformation to grain. D214
• Transformation: man to rice-grain. D214.1
• Transformation: man to sheaf of grain. D218
• Transformation: rushes to grain. D451.2.1.1
• Transformation: apples to grain. D451.3.1
• Transformation: grain to gold. D475.1.6.1
• Wood turned into grain. D476.1.3
• Disenchantment by burying victim and sowing grain over him. D719.1
• Magic grains. D973
• Magic rice-grains. D973.1
• Rice-grains magically produced by gourd. D973.1.1
• Magic strength-giving rice-grain. (Cf. D973.1.) D1335.1.1
• Consecrated grain as remedy. (Cf. D973.) D1500.1.10.4
• Inexhaustible grain. D1652.1.3
• Showers of grain called down. D2105.6
• Magic speed by eating magic grains (medicine). D2122.1
• Cure by burning grain where man has died. (Cf. D1787.) Or where he is buried. D2161.4.8
• Wraith binds grain in field. E723.7.6
• Few grains of earth from river bed translates soul destined to an evil future to Paradise. E754.1.7
• Grain scattered as a means of dispersing spirits. F405.6
• Trolls help with grain harvest. F455.6.8.1
• Cobold furnishes inexhaustible grain to grinder of handmill. Latter kills him in disgust. F481.2.1
• Strong man's labor contract: all grain he can carry. F613.2
• Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. F615.3.1.2
• Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. F645.2
• Country without grain. F708.2
• Extraordinary grain. F815.2
• Extraordinary amount of liquor pressed from single grain. F815.2.1
• Prolific grain. Produces enormously. F815.6
• Witch raises wind to winnow grain. G283.1.2.4
• Devil plows and plants grain for farmer in one day. G303.9.2.3
• Devil gives Eve two grains of corn. One is for her and one for Adam. G303.9.4.1
• Recognition by grain of gold under skin. H61.4
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes many out of few. (Sows grain.) H583.2.2
• How many seconds in eternity? A bird carries a grain of sand from a mountain each century; when the whole mountain is gone, the first second of eternity has passed. (Cf. D791.1.2, H1583, X950.2, Z61.) H701.1
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the grains of sand; if you don't believe it, count them yourself. H702.1
• Task: making ale derived from a single grain of corn. H1022.6.1
• Task: brewing impossible amount of ale from one grain of corn. H1022.8
• Impossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottom. H1023.2.3
• Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
• Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one night. H1091
• Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful ants. H1091.1
• Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds. H1091.2
• Task: building granary full of grain overnight. H1104.5
• Task: preparing large quantity of grain. H1122
• Task: supplying superhuman amount of grain. H1122.1
• Task: stealing ogre's grain. H1151.25
• Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.) H1483
• Father bequeathes four pots to sons: eldest finds earth in his; second, bones; third, rice husks; youngest, rupees (eldest to get land; second, cattle; third, grain; youngest to keep money). J99.2
• Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves. J711.2
• Wise man stores grain against coming famine. J711.4
• Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe. J711.5
• Crane advises fool to empty reservoir so he can reap all grain. Crane eats fish left at bottom. J758.2
• Fourth horse must carry all. Miller has four horses to carry grain. He uses only one, so that it soon dies. Four horses are childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Don't heap all burden of securing salvation on the fourth horse, old age. J761.2
• Crow thinks harvesters are stealing his grain. J953.7
• Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done. J1031
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• Better to donate half of what is asked than lend all. Two farmers ask a priest to lend two measures of grain to each of them. The priest refuses to lend them any but donates one measure to each. Thus he saves two measures. J1552.4
• Sickle laid in field and told to cut grain. J1881.1.6
• Fool seeks the ears of grain in the direction of the cloud toward which he has sowed them. J1922.2.1
• Numskulls sow cooked grain. J1932.1
• Short-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it up. J2072.2
• One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
• Master asked to help in the theft. The fool sent in by thieves is told to bring out the heaviest thing. As this is a grain-grinder and he cannot carry it, he wakes the master of the house to help him. J2136.5.6.1
• Miser jumps into a ravine to retrieve single grain. Breaks both legs. J2146.1
• Grain shot down with guns. People unacquainted with the sickle. J2196
• Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her. J2465.7
• Fool kills himself in despair because a sparrow has taken one grain from his field. J2518.1
• Hero to eat iron grains. Substitutes soft food. K63.1
• Contest with magician in bringing grain out of closed bamboo: trickster brings culm-borers to make holes. K69.1
• Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
• Deceptive bargain: as much grain as will go in a rope. Trickster encloses whole crop. K174.1
• Deceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacks. K181
• Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
• The eaten grain and the cock as damages. A trickster has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock, which he demands and receives as damages. Likewise when a hog eats the cock and the ox eats the hog. K251.1
• Deceptive wages: two grains and land to plant them on. Grain multiplies and takes up all of dupe's land. K256.2
• Grain-thief's wagon falls into ditch: duped owner helps him. The thief makes the owner believe that the grain belongs to the thief. K405.1
• Husks replaced in granary so theft of grain is unnoticed. K419.6
• Half a grain. Trickster drops half a grain into grain cellar then demands half of the grain supply. K446.1
• The double-cheating miller. He confesses that he has an oversized measure and agrees to get a smaller one. He measures back the grain in the smaller measure. K486
• Threshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flail. K1422
• Sowing grain: does so in unplowed field. K1428