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• God and the devil torment each other with their creations. Devil pesters God with gnats. God makes a fire and safeguards himself; God plagues the devil with fleas. Devil is unable to find means of protecting himself. A63.4.1
• God reveals himself to mortals. A182
• God does not reveal himself; men unable to endure his glory. A182.0.1
• Dying culture hero. The culture hero teaches people how to die by dying himself. A565
• Fettered monster's escape at end of world. Giant, or monster, is fettered in depths of the earth. His movement causes earthquakes. When he succeeds in freeing himself from the fetters and escapes, the world will end. A1070
• Monster fettered with sword just out of reach. If he reaches it he will free himself. A1074.1
• Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle. A1174.4
• Originally man rejuvenated himself by snake-like change of skin. A1319.12
• Disease to prevent man enjoying himself too much. A1337.0.6
• Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light. A1411.2
• Why elephant hurts himself when running through the grass: mouse's curse. A2239.10
• Ant carries load as heavy as himself. Defeats bear, raven (or other bird). Various explanations. (Cf. A2435.3.3, A2486.1.) A2251.1
• Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man. A2479.4
• Tree on which Judas hanged himself cursed. A2721.5
• Magic snake can compress himself to minute size and expand to giant size. B176.1.2
• Prince awakened by fly on his nose in time to save himself from enemy. B521.3.3.1
• Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. B522.1
• The musician in the wolf-trap: meets wolf already trapped, and saves himself by playing music. (Cf. K551.3.1.) B848.1
• Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay. B855
• Devil called on for help. When the devil appears man excuses himself. C12.1
• Noah's curse admits devil to ark. Devil persuades Noah's wife to stay out of ark till Noah shall call devil in. Noah at last loses patience and calls out, "The devil! Come in!" The devil comes in and turns himself into a mouse. C12.5.1
• Magic changes in man himself. D50
• Daily beating of men transformed to dogs. Necessary unless hero himself is to be transformed. D691
• Magic charm (formula) used injudiciously brings death to owner's wife, children, himself. D806.2
• River says, "The time has come but not the man". Man thus induced to drown himself. D1311.11.1
• Saint causes pain of sick man to be transferred to himself. D1500.3.1.1
• Magic spittle controls rain. Makes rain on everyone but possessor of spittle himself. (Cf. D1001.) D1542.1.2
• Magic object compels fugitive to betray himself. D1612.2
• Magic knowledge of what is to happen to himself after death. (Cf. G283.1.) D1812.0.5
• Man is able to tell king dream which king himself does not remember. D1819.7
• Axe will not cut man, however much he strikes himself. D1841.5.3
• Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
• Horse made to hang himself on gate by magic. D2061.2.8
• Man who forgets to count himself dies immediately after. E791
• Divine elephant comes down from heaven to feed and disport himself. F35.2
• Tabu: drinking from certain well in fairyland. Person does, finds himself alone on hillside. (Cf. C260.) F378.4
• Saint visits king of fairies on invitation of fairy king. Saint sprinkles holy water on fairy king, finds himself alone on hill. F379.4
• The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
• Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
• Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself. F1035
• Servant grieves over master's death. Kills wife and himself. F1041.1.3.2
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Witch causes man to strip naked and imitate a jockey riding himself. G269.21.3
• The devil creates devils by casting water behind himself. G303.1.4.1
• Devil calls himself "Puss". G303.2.1
• Devils have only one leg. They broke one leg when trying to run away from God's attack to protect himself from them. G303.4.5.1
• Devil builds himself a castle and calls it hell. G303.8.3.2
• Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. G303.8.12
• The devil teaches man how to hang himself. G303.9.4.2.1
• Devil exhorts youth to enjoy himself and not to think of God. When the youth has grown old the devil says, "It is now too late to think of God." G303.9.7.2
• Devil helps person to steal. When thief blesses himself he is forsaken by the devil. (Cf. K365.) G303.22.6
• Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. G524
• Ogre deceived into hanging himself. G524.1
• Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
• Suitor contest: bride offered to the one distinguishing himself most in battle. Girl loves both suitors equally. H331.2.1.1
• Husband castrates himself to test wife's faithfulness. H492.3
• Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
• Test: telling five lies which should so closely resemble the truth the tester will believe them himself. H509.5.1
• Arrested man tells who he is: father throws himself into the ranks and holds them (weaver). H581.3
• King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.) H583.1
• Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. H601
• Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. H1023.19
• King seeks one richer (more magnificent) than himself. (Cf. H1395.) H1311.1
• Test of curiosity: the clock. A man is promised a beautiful clock if he can mind his own business for a whole year. He does. The giver tells him he is the second man who almost made sure of getting the clock. The man asks how the other missed getting it; he loses the clock himself. H1554.2
• Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
• Test of gratitude: magician makes pupil believe himself superior. Though he has promised magician great rewards he forgets his promise. Wealth removed. H1565.1
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• "If you wish to hang yourself, do so by the stone which I point out": counsel proved wise by experience. Father has left money which will fall out when the spendthrift son goes to hang himself in despair. "The Heir of Linne." J21.15
• "He who throws himself against a wave is overthrown by it": proved true. J21.52.9
• Why great man plays with children. This is to be learned only when one has children himself. Anecdote of Agesilaus. J25
• Arrow as man's message shows lion how terrible man himself must be. J32
• Wisdom taught by suicidal example. Man is ordered by Senate to make tyrant stop bloodshed. He kills himself and family to satiate tyrant of blood. J173
• Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
• Solomon refuses water of immortality for himself when he cannot have it for his possessions also. J369.1
• Socrates builds himself a little house. Criticized for its smallness he says, "I wish I had true friends enough to fill it." J401.1
• Association of rat with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. The rat threatened by the weasel and the owl allies himself with a cat caught in a net. Saved by the cat, he rescues the cat with precaution and then prudently renounces further relations with her. J426
• Lizard tries to make himself as long as snake. Kills himself. J512.9
• King in anger punishes misdeed on Easter day. Is almost killed himself in retaliation. He submits and says that he deserves this punishment for hasty action. J571.3
• Man has disinterested party punish servant for him lest he himself be unfair in his anger. J571.4.1
• Bravest know how to wait. Three men are pursued in battle. First throws himself on enemies; second waits a little; third does not fight until the enemy begins. Latter is bravest. J572.1
• Dissuasion from suicide. Man dissuades simpleton from hanging himself by telling him that hell is a place of pain and torments. J628
• Fox sees all tracks going into lion's den but none coming out. He saves himself. J644.1
• Man decides to make himself strong in peaceful times rather than wait until attacked. J674.2
• Man slays another in order not to be slain himself. J675
• Son slays father in order not to be slain himself. J675.1
• The lion's share. Ass divides booty equally between himself, fox, and lion. Lion eats ass. Fox then divides: gives lion meat and he takes bones. J811.1
• Lion divides the booty. Best part goes to himself as king of beasts; second, as strongest; third, as most valiant; fourth – "touch it if you dare." J811.1.1
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• "High-born alone recognizes one of equal rank with himself." Jackal sees man with instrument he is unfamiliar with, comes up to him and salutes him "Lord of Delhi." Man calls him Lord of Jungle and tells above. J814.3
• Man plays fool to protect himself in dealing with king. J822
• Man pretends idiocy so as to avoid compromising himself when summoned to testify by two rival queens before the king. J822.1
• Consoled by a drop of honey. Man in pit surrounded by perils thus comforts himself. J861.1
• Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble. J877
• Man in cold consoles himself thinking of rich men in hell or prison. J883.2
• Ass who has worked with ox thinks himself equal to ox. J952.4
• Bad writer who praises himself reprimanded. J953.2.1
• Rat imagines himself owner of camel. He is attached to camel by string. J953.17
• 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
• Stag found by master when overlooked by servants. Hides under hay and escapes until master himself comes. J1032
• Doctor unable to cure himself scorned. J1062.2