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• Precious properties of the gods. A156
• Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
• Misplaced genitalia. Originally genitals are misplaced. They are properly arranged by the culture hero. A1313.3
• Original fire property of one person (animal). A1415.0.2
• Origin of the potlatch. A feast of the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America in which large amounts of property are given away to the guests. These feasts must be returned. A1535.1
• Origin of laws: division of property in a family. A1585
• Dog granted proper food. A2545.4
• Why agar-tree has magic properties. A transformed magician. A2731.4
• Origin of combustible property of wood. A2782
• Medicinal properties of trees. A2783
• Camrosh. Giant bird which collects seeds and sees that they are properly placed. Carries off the people's enemies. B35
• Magic bird collects seeds. Sees that they are properly placed. Also carries off people's enemies. B172.3
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• 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
• Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit. C43.3
• Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. C221.4.2
• Certain pool to be approached only when properly attired. C615.5
• Transformation to destroy enemy's property. D651.3
• Disenchantment by proper person waking from magic sleep. The enchanted person appears three times and if the sleeper does not wake by the third time the enchantment must last. D762
• Disenchantment by being wakened from magic sleep by proper agent. D762.2
• Disenchantment by speaking proper words. D789.6.1
• Copper horseman indicates road. By striking his hand one makes him turn and indicate the proper road for travelers. (Cf. D1268, D1626.) D1313.3
• Magic two-edged knife indicates direction. Points in proper direction; bends downward to indicate wrong direction. (Cf. D1083.) D1313.8
• Rope breaks at proper burial place. (Cf. D1203.) D1314.12.1
• Magic object causes things to seek their proper place. D1565
• Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) D1602.12
• Wizard tells location of stolen property. D1817.0.1.2
• Wizard compels thief to return stolen property. D1817.0.1.3
• Wizard compels thief to deliver stolen property in person to the owner. D1817.0.1.3.1
• Magic used against property. D2080
• Magic used against property – miscellaneous. D2089
• Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
• Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. E234.1
• Ghost returns to demand proper burial. E235.2
• Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites. E235.2.1
• Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. E235.2.2
• Return from dead to demand stolen property. E236
• Saint's body miraculously moves so that it is laid properly north and south, not northeast and southwest. E411.0.8
• Magician who has sold his soul to the devil hires his servant to bury him properly: the coffin bursts. (Cf. E261.2.1.) E411.9
• Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest. E412.3
• Proper means of addressing ghosts. E545.19.2
• Mortal confiscates property of dwarfs. F451.5.10.7
• Dwarf promises money and property to mortal father for hand of daughter. F451.5.18.1
• Proper names for dwarfs. F451.8.2
• Brownie restores stolen property, gives thief a twitch in eyelid. F482.5.4.2
• Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. F1088.3.1
• Witch abuses property. G265
• Satan causes storm to destroy property of man he tempts. G303.9.4.0.1
• An all-red, all-black, or all-white calf the property of the devil. G303.10.9
• Recognition by ability to identify property. H19.1
• Stone on which saint was born pours forth water when perjury is committed under it. "But if (the) oath be true, the stone remains in its proper nature." H251.2.3
• Riddle propounded on pain of loss of property. H541.2
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• One traveler to another (as they see corpse borne by): He is not entirely dead. (Has left good property.) H586.5
• Enigmatic counsels of a father. Taken literally bring trouble, but when properly interpreted are valuable. H588
• Enigmatic welcome of host. Sounds very inhospitable but properly interpreted makes guests welcome. H595
• Society is like a dish: must be properly mixed. Plates having salt, pepper, fish, etc. not edible without mixing. J81.1
• Lack of proper education regretted. J142
• In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night. J242.8
• Make use of proper seasons for crops. J713
• Own name inscribed on a stolen object as sign of property. [Inadvertant duplication of K448.] J1162.3
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• The one exception. "You are a good man; there is not your equal on the earth. You have everything for yourself alone; only your wife is public property." J1355
• The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
• The man in place of a watch-dog. The master orders his serf to watch the manor at night in place of the dog. When the thieves come, the serf barks: "Dress, dress .... They take, take .... They lead, lead .... " The master does not understand the barking and pays no heed to it – is robbed of his property. J1511.12
• Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road. J1541.4
• Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. J1563.4
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Breeding fine horses from an ass. Fool says, "Just as soon as the body of a colt bred from this mare is in proper proportion to its ears you will have a fine horse." J1909.4
• Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved. J2129.2
• Credulous king reads about ocean of milk and its properties. J2349.3
• Literal numskull destroys inherited property since his sister has instructions not to object to his actions. J2461.1.8
• Man gives up half property. Slave cut in two. J2469.3.1
• Husband to spite wife plays dead. When she tells neighbors that they may come and take dead man's property he gets up. J2511.1.1
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Deceptive bargain: the ogre and the copper coins. Every time the copper coin is paid out, the ogre must make a new one. The man buys an extensive property and pays with a large number of copper coins. He threatens to buy another and the ogre goes back on his contract. K183
• Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form. K236.3
• Stolen property sold to its owner. K258
• The supposed magic spell. The thief orders the farmer to crawl into a tub and to sit there quietly and not look about, while he makes a magic spell (cure him of childlessness). Meanwhile, he steals all the farmer's property. K341.22
• Thief successfully accuses owner of having stolen property he covets. K401.5
• Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property. K941
• Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered. K1155
• Dupe's property destroyed. K1400
• [First Edition: K1490. Dupe's property destroyed – miscellaneous.] K1490[1st ed.]
• Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
• Mild brother triumphs over warlike. Survives him and inherits property. L353
• Rich man made poor to punish pride. He boasts that God has no power to make him poor. While he is at church, his property burns and he returns home poor. L412
• Vow never to pass over demarcation line into other's property. M186
• Prophecy: punishment for misappropriation of property. M368
• Curse given to negate good wish. Odin gives man life three times the normal; Thor ordains that in each he is to commit crime. Odin gives him the choicest weapons; Thor denies him landed property, etc. M416
• Whole kingdom (all property) as wager. N2.5
• Train of troubles from sparrow's vengeance. A man runs over the dog, friend of the sparrow. Through the sparrow's vengeance the man loses his horse, his property, and finally his life. N261
• Accidental loss of property. N350
• Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him. P236.1
• Life of shepherd proper preparation for ruler. P412.1.1
• Reward for asking proper questions. Q85
• Half of property as reward. Q112.0.2
• Misdeeds concerning property punished. Q270
• Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Q302.1
• Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Q486