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• God of whirlwind. Typhon. He is represented as having serpents' heads on his shoulders, as having a voice like the sound of many beasts and eyes which flash fire. A282.1
• First man the result of maid having licked semen-stained loin cloth of creator's teacher. A1211.7
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Origin of custom of shaving. A1597.2
• Why sheep walk with bowed heads: they have remained so after having bowed to God. A2221.9
• Bird has red spot on its tail as reward for having moved woman's organ to its present position. A2229.6
• Flying horse. Sometimes represented as having wings, sometimes as going through the air by magic. B41.2
• Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.) B165.1.1
• Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them." B165.1.3
• Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed. B217.5
• Insect having fallen on back grateful for being turned over. B364.3
• Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun. B751.3
• Punishment for having refused to take part in Bacchic rites. C57.2
• Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on body. C110.1
• Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. C549.1
• Tabu: king having physical blemish. C563.2
• Tabu: appearing before king without having been summoned. C563.5
• Tabu: chief's troop not having a herald. C564.2
• Tabu: shaving. C722.0.1
• Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. C756.4
• Transformation: shavings to gold. D475.1.2
• Disenchantment by shaving. D718
• Tree grateful for having boughs trimmed. D1658.1.5.1
• Tree grateful for having milk poured on roots. D1658.1.5.2
• Magic ring works by having sun's rays flash upon gem. D1662.1.1
• Possession of magic knowledge and witchcraft from having eaten of father-of-man's corpse. D1735.4
• Rejuvenation by going to other world and having digestive tract removed. D1889.5
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by having magic doves converse. D2006.1.3
• Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse. E341.1
• Dead grateful for having been spared indignity to corpse. Kind man has given it burial. E341.1.1
• Bearded woman ghost laid by shaving her. E451.7
• Wild huntsman repays with leaves (shavings) that turn to gold. E501.15.4
• Debate of body and soul. Soul having left body enters into debate with the body concerning relative merits of body and soul. (Cf. H500.) E727.1
• Giant insults hero by shaving his head and smearing it with cow dung. F531.5.12
• Voice made smooth by having ant bite tongue. F556.1.2
• 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
• Fish disappear from sea. Punishment for woman's having washed a child with a fish. F931.2
• Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten. F953.1
• Woman dies on having secret love exposed. F1041.1.3.3
• Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
• Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. F1096.1
• Monster with two horns, each having human head on it. G361.1.1.1
• King selected by having a cricket light on his head. H162.2
• Father recognizes son after having thrown him in oven. H165
• Criminal detected by having child hand knife to him. H211
• Barber's contest in shaving (without waking man). H504.2
• Reductio ad absurdum of riddle: stallions of Babylon. "Why is my mare restless when stallions of Babylon neigh?" Hero beats cat for having strangled a cock last night in Babylon (impossible distance away). H572
• Riddle: who, having neither father nor mother, are dead? (Adam and Eve.) H813
• Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead? (Elias.) H814
• Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead like other mortals? (Lot's wife.) H815
• Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair; countertask: making a loom from shavings. (Cf. H951.) H1021.6.1
• Task: filling pots having subterranean outlets. H1023.2.5
• Task: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worry. H1195
• Fear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight. H1405
• Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe. H1511.4
• Contest of dogs. Two opponents test their powers by having their dogs fight. H1588
• Serpent (bird) having injured man refuses reconciliation. He knows that neither can forget their injuries. J15
• "Rue not a thing that is past": counsel proved wise by experience. Man lets bird go and then, having listened to bird's false declaration that she had a precious gem in her body, he tries to climb a tree after her and falls. J21.12
• Birds having learned their possible dangers are forced from nest by mother. J65
• Society is like a dish: must be properly mixed. Plates having salt, pepper, fish, etc. not edible without mixing. J81.1
• Hostile dogs made friendly by having them fight common enemy, the wolf. J145
• Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter. J229.1
• Leopard ashamed of having been bitten by lizard. J411.10
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• Frogs decide not to jump into the well. Their spring having dried up, they consider jumping into a well. They decide that the well may also dry up. J752.1
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• Woman tests enduring power of gossip by having a servant ride through streets on a flayed ass. By the third day he has ceased to attract attention. She concludes that it will be the same way in connection with her intended marriage. J1075.1
• Confession of debt secured by having defendant dispute as to whether cat was present when debt was made. J1141.1.11
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Execution evaded by having three wishes granted: to be emperor, judge and the emperor's son-in-law during the last week of his life. As judge he frees himself and is in reality freed. J1181.2
• Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense. J1184.2
• Courtier having observed king's amour shields him and gains pardon. Answers in clever proverbs when called on to say what he has seen. J1211.3
• Unwelcome guest tells about the hidden food. Having seen his hostess hide it, he tells about it in the form of a tale. J1344
• Prostitutes wander. A woman having given her cook leave of absence for the next day asks her what day it is. "Saturday." "No, it is the day on which the prostitutes wander." The cook: "Yes, from one prostitute to another. Today I am with you, tomorrow with your sister." J1351.1
• Night study. A thief having scorned Demosthenes for his constant study, the latter says, "I know that you have not failed to notice that I study much at night." J1394.1
• No physician at all. A bad physician having predicted the immediate death of a patient meets him recovered. "How go things down below?" "They put you at the head of the list of bad physicians, but I maintained that you were no physician at all." J1432
• The liar. A man attempts to lie out of having called another a liar: "You lie if you say that I said you lied." The other: "It's a good thing for you that you didn't call me a liar." (Cf. J817.) J1456
• The sound of shaving. An unskillful barber keeps cutting a man's face. A noise is heard. The man: "What is that?" Barber: "A smith shoeing horses." Man: "I thought it was someone being shaved." J1484
• Master says that he has eyes in back of head: servant cheats him. Holds up food to master's back and then not having objection raised, eats it. J1511.9
• Can drink only one kind of wine at a time. Priests come to an inn where host gives them good wine and bad. They insist on having all good since they must drink only one kind of wine. On their return he serves them with all bad. They claim to have had the rule changed. J1511.15
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• Unjust action brought to inform king of judge's malfeasance. Husband is imprisoned and wife detained by judge. She accuses her husband of having stolen her. J1675.1.2
• Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
• Christ accused of trying to fool the people. Fool sees the image of Christ elevated on Ascension Day to the beams of the church. He accuses Christ of having fooled the people into believing that he has gone to heaven. J1823.1.1
• How can an elephant eat, having tails at both ends? Decision: it lives on air. J1903.4
• Toad having found money daydreams and is run over. J2061.4
• Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife. J2082
• The considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too short. J2088
• Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. J2135.1
• Having the head dressed before hanging. A man who has hurt his head in trying to hang himself has the head dressed by a doctor and then goes and hangs himself. J2174.3
• The inconvenience of having a father: The numskull to his father: "If you had never been born I would get my grandfather's estate." J2222
• Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) J2321.1
• Wolf (bear) boasts of having eaten horses. When the horse strikes sparks with his hoofs the lion is frightened and picks up the boastful wolf to show him the horse. He squeezes the wolf to death. J2351.4
• Numskull wants to be shaved too. He sees another man being shaved and thinks that the man is having his ears cut off. He orders his wife to cut off his ears. J2426
• Seven devils' wives imitate ritual of death and resuscitation done over hero; not having the real water of life and death, the seven enemy devils are killed. K113.0.1
• Devil cheated by having priest draw a sacred circle about the intended victim. K218.1
• Devil cheated of his victim by boy having a bible under his arm. K218.2
• Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. K236.2
• Creditor to wait till debtor is shaved. The debtor refuses to finish shaving. K238.1