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• Owl reveals deity's secret: power of speech removed. A2239.3.1
• Thorn removed from lion's paw (Androcles and the Lion). In gratitude the lion later rewards the man. B381
• Thorn removed from monkey's tail. B381.2
• Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
• Disenchantment by hiding skin (covering). When the enchanted person has temporarily removed the covering, it is stolen and the victim remains disenchanted until it is found. D721.2
• Stones, being removed, return to their places. (Cf. D931, D1401.5.) D1602.1
• Statues that cannot be removed. (Cf. D1268.) D1654.7
• Picture that cannot be removed in ship. (Cf. D1266.2, D1654.6.) D1654.8
• Magic weakness never entirely removed. D1837.2
• Rejuvenation by going to other world and having digestive tract removed. D1889.5
• Girl's heart magically removed and fed to man draws her to him. D1905.1
• Barrenness removed by eating or drinking. D1925.1
• Barrenness removed by bathing. D1925.2
• Barrenness removed by prayer. D1925.3
• Barrenness removed by saint's blessing. D1925.4
• Heart removed by magic. D2062.1
• Magic house removed. D2136.9
• Dead returns to replace boundary marks he has removed. (Cf. E416.) E345.1
• Ghost will not return if door is removed and hung backwards. (Cf. D1783.) E439.9
• Wild hunt throws human flesh on persons who see it. This cannot be removed. E501.18.2
• Wild hunt throws horses' feet on persons who see it. This cannot be removed. E501.18.3
• Extraordinary gustatory sense. Woman detects flavor of garlic in a sauce made in a mortar from which garlic has been removed. F647.1.1
• Weapon (missile) miraculously removed. F959.3.4
• Bones temporarily removed from body by tree climbers to avoid breaking them. F1054
• False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. H105.1.1
• Question (propounded on quest): Why has spring gone dry? Answer: Animal to be removed from its water-vein. H1292.1
• Test of gratitude: magician makes pupil believe himself superior. Though he has promised magician great rewards he forgets his promise. Wealth removed. H1565.1
• The only person in the bath. Servant reports to master that there is but one person in the public bath Master finds three hundred. Only one person had removed stone from his path; rest had stubbed toes. He was only one worthy of the name of man. J753.1
• How to save the rice. Boy has rice in joined hands and arms around a pillar. Afraid to move lest rice be lost. Roof is removed and boy lifted over pillar. J2119.6
• The fool and the visitor's large nose. The fool asks where he got the large nose. Is removed from the room. He comes back to mend matters. He says, "What a small nose you have!" He is again taken from the room. The third time: "What difference does it make whether you have a nose or not?" J2512
• Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
• Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed. K1081.3
• Lover's gift regained: the broken (removed) article. The lover breaks (or removes) an article of household equipment and convinces the husband that for that reason the wife has confiscated that which he gave her as a present. K1581.1
• Body of devil's disciple is removed from coffin by devil. M219.2.5
• Curse removed when victims reform. M423
• Treasure having removed itself eventually returns. N562.1
• Treasure seekers find hole from which treasure has recently been removed. (Often they have delayed searching for one reason or another, arrive too late.) N563
• Frog removed from queen's nose by telling such interesting story that she gives quick breath and dislodges him. N641.2
• Thorn accidentally removed from cobra's throat by woman's finger. Grateful cobra. N647
• Garment must be removed in presence of certain high chiefs. P94
• Battle-cairn. Losses reckoned by number of stones remaining in pile after each survivor has removed one. P554
• Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) Q469.1
• Ring of Fastrada. (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love. T85.4.1
• Child removed from body of dead mother. T584.2
• Saint's bones miraculously removed from reliquary broken in pillage. V143.1
• Stone turns red when saint's picture is removed. V229.23
• Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him. V462.12
• Lie: hole from which great vegetable is removed. X1401.3