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• The making of gods. A104
• Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller. A852
• Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved. A853
• Making mountains out of flat earth causes flood. A1016.5
• World-eclipse ended by bat making sun smile. A1046.1
• Devil's unsuccessful attempt to vivify his creations as God has done. Succeeds only in making animal. A1217
• Origin of charcoal making. A1452
• Origin of cloth-making. A1453
• Origin of shoemaking. A1454
• Elder tree is never struck by lightning because it was used in making the cross. A2711.2.1
• Gold-making deer. B103.1.4
• Gold-making bird. B103.1.5
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe. C641
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe on Tuesday. C641.1
• Tabu: making peace with certain tribe. C642
• Tabu: making noise on way to other world. C715.2
• Tabu: making treaty at certain time. C751.5
• Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
• Tabu: making withershins circuit. (Cf. D1791.2.) C854.2
• Tabu: making use of blood. C893
• Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.) C922
• Magic object received from grateful fairy. Hero has cured sick fairy by making her laugh. D813.2
• Saw for coffin-making sounds to announce death. D1322.1
• Boards for coffin making mysteriously moved announces death. D1322.1.2
• Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. D1904
• Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. D2031.6.3
• Magic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel. D2064.8
• Magic trouble-making. (Cf. K2130.) D2097
• Magic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded up. D2121.4
• Resuscitation of dead by making image of deceased of breadfruit wood. When spirit enters this, image disappears and person is found alive. E53.2
• Ghost strikes man in face, making his mouth crooked. E265.1.3
• Entrance to lower world by making hole in ground. F92.5
• Lovemaking in otherworld. F181
• Dwarf expert at making palm wine. F451.3.4.9
• Witch torments person by making him act in ridiculous manner. G269.21
• The devil tries to learn a trade; he fails miserably at all but versemaking. He now loiters in alehouses, sings songs. G303.13.4
• Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross. G303.16.3.4
• Devil made visible by making sign of cross. G303.16.3.6
• Task for devil: making needles. G303.16.19.3.2
• Hero kills trouble-making evil strong men. G512.0.1
• Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.) H335.6
• Suitor test: making princess laugh. Sadfaced princess has never laughed. H341
• Bride test: making dress from wasted flax. H381.1
• Bride test: bread-making. H383.1
• Bride test: bread-making – dough under fingernails. After three weeks the girl still has dough under her fingernails. H383.1.1
• Special power of chaste woman: making ball of water. H413.2
• Test: making senseless remarks. King brought to say, "What is the sense in that?" H507.2
• Contest in making mouths water. Hero uses certain berry that always causes mouths of onlookers to water. H509.2
• Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
• Task: making a rope of sand. H1021.1
• Task: making a rope of sand; countertask: first showing the pattern. (Cf. H951.) H1021.1.1
• Task: making a rope of chaff. H1021.2
• Task: making ship of stone. H1021.3
• Task: making a knot of spilled brandy. H1021.4
• Task: making an invisible knot with an egg. H1021.5
• Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair; countertask: making a loom from shavings. (Cf. H951.) H1021.6.1
• Task: making a peacock of silk. H1021.11
• Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool). H1022.2
• Task: clothing an army from one hank of flax; countertask: making horseshoes for cavalry from one needle. (Cf. H951.) H1022.2.1
• Task: weaving a shirt from a piece of thread; countertask: making a loom from a rod. H1022.2.2
• Task: making sails for ship from one bundle of linen; countertask: making spindle and loom from one stick of wood. (Cf. H951.) H1022.3
• Task: making shirt from piece of linen three inches square. H1022.4
• Task: making shirt derived from a single flax-seed. H1022.4.1
• Task: making shawl-cloth one hundred cubits in length out of one cocoon of silk. H1022.4.3
• Task: making broth for army. H1022.5.1
• Task: making many kinds of food from one small bird. H1022.6
• Task: making ale derived from a single grain of corn. H1022.6.1
• Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle. H1022.7
• Task: making withered flowers green. H1023.3.2
• Task: making a dog's tail straight. H1023.4.1
• Task: making sun and moon shine in the north. H1023.16
• Suitor asked to bathe in great cauldron of boiling water without making water lukewarm. H1023.24
• Task: making a bull bear a calf. H1024.1.1
• Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.) H1024.1.1.1
• Task: making bed but do not make it. H1068
• Task: making garden quickly in unplanted forest. H1103.1
• Task: making garden in three days. H1103.1.1
• Task: making ladder which whole army cannot set up. H1147
• Task: making pigs dance. H1186
• Task: making person laugh. H1194
• Task: making jackal laugh (weep). H1194.2
• Test: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etc. H1502
• Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. H1556.4.2
• "Don't be too greedy in making a trade": counsel proved wise by experience. Man refuses fifty ducats for horse. Horse suddenly dies. J21.26
• Ducklings take to water from instinct. Bridegroom thus brought to understand bride's expertness in lovemaking. J64
• Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
• Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." J553.2
• Foolishness of noise-making when enemies overhear. J581
• Avoid enemies' revenge either by making peace and friendship or by killing them all. So says old man to conqueror. J647.1
• Yogi advises yogi blood for making king's leaky tank hold water: king cuts off yogi's head. J818.1
• Confession obtained by making thief fear for his life. (Told that crossbow would shoot guilty person as he passed before it.) J1141.10
• Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
• "You don't blame a toolmaker for making all manner of tools, both harmful and helpful, so why blame God for making bad beasts as well as good ones?" J1262.6
• Shoemaker speaks ill of lord's rule. Lord takes his tools away from him. Shoemaker begs for them saying that he cannot carry on his business without them. Ruler: "I thought ruling was your business so I took your tools to learn shoemaking." J1289.7
• Baptized wine. Christ's making wine from water has made all landlords try to do it too. Man prefers Jewish wine to the baptized kind. J1312.3
• The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: "How if he comes back with it?" "I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake." J1371
• Absurdity of trying to convert king to Hinduism – like making cow of donkey or black dog into white. J1536.2
• Noises fire is making misunderstood. Hunchback springs into it to burn to his death. J1812.4.1
• Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc. J1813.7
• Numskull stays till he has finished. As he is making water he hears a brook flowing and mistakes what it is. He waits for a day and a half. J1814