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• Deity authenticates sacred writings in heaven. A199.6
• Spring from roots of sacred tree when arrow is shot into it. A941.7.2
• Origin of sacred places. A992
• Origin of sacred post (placed there by ancestral culture hero). A992.1
• Sacred place where thunderbolt fell down. A992.2
• Beetle's special sacredness. A2021.1
• Why animal is sacred. A2541
• Why bee is sacred. A2541.1
• Bird can recite sacred writings. B122.3
• Animals observe sacred revelation. B251.8
• St. Anthony's pigs. Pigs dedicated to saint held sacred. B256.2
• Frog recovers Sacred Host from water. B548.5
• Sacred animals. B811
• Sacred horse. (Cf. B802.) B811.1
• Sacred armadillo. B811.2
• Sacred animal: cow. B811.3
• Sacred buffalo. B811.3.1
• Sacred bull. B811.3.2
• Sacred cattle of sun god. B811.3.3
• Sacred cat. B811.4
• Sacred swan. B811.5
• Sacred fox. B811.6
• Tabu: stealing from sacred booty. C51.1.2.1
• Tabu: breathing on sacred fire. C51.1.3
• Tabu: peeping at sacred font. (Cf. C300.) C51.1.7
• Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.1.10
• Visits of goddess cease when her sacred spring is disturbed. C51.1.11
• Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel). C51.2.1
• Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.) C51.2.2
• Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. C55.1
• Tabu: profaning sacred day. C58
• Tabu: diminishing number of sacred days. C58.1
• Tabu: attacking deity (sacred person). C63
• Tabu: neglect of sacred fires. C67
• Tabu: offending other sacred beings. C70
• Other tabus in connection with sacred beings. C90
• Tabu: stealing fruits from sacred tree. (Cf. C262.3.) C91.2
• Tabu: killing sacred beings. C92
• Tabu: killing sacred animals. C92.1
• Tabu: killing sacred calf. C92.1.2
• Tabu: killing shrew-mouse, sacred to the gods. C92.1.3
• Tabu: killing other sacred bird. C92.1.6
• Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) C92.2
• Tabu: trespassing sacred precinct. C93
• Tabu: crossing bridge sacred to the gods. C93.4
• Tabu: rudeness to sacred person or thing. C94
• Tabu: rudeness to sacred animal. C94.3.1
• Tabu: offending sacred cow. C94.3.1.1
• Other tabus in connection with sacred beings – miscellaneous. C99
• Tabu: sexual intercourse in sacred precinct. (Cf. Q551.3.) C116
• Tabu: killing and cooking sacred cow. C221.1.1.1.3
• Tabu: revealing sacred mysteries. C423.5
• Tabu: touching sacred mountain. C526
• Fountain is inhabited by sacred oracular fish. D925.2
• Sacred relic as magic object. D1296
• Divination from chance reading of sacred (magic) book. D1311.14
• Sacred relics protect against attack. (Cf. D1296.) D1381.20
• Dextrorsum circuit (around sacred stone) insures victory. D1381.25.1
• Sacred sword of saint repulses army of heretics. D1400.1.4.1.1
• Oil comes out of sacred white stone. (Cf. D931.) D1482.1
• Sacred healing stone. (Cf. D931.) D1500.1.2
• Sacred objects cure disease. (Cf. V150.) D1500.1.10
• Magic healing oil from saints (sacred places). (Cf. D1500.1.10.) D1500.1.19.2
• Sacred weapon thrown into sky causes drought. (Cf. D1080.) D1542.2.1
• Sacred scroll returns to heaven. (Cf. D1266.1, V151.) D1641.11
• Sacred image impossible to remove from the spot. D1654.8.1
• Divine inspiration for writing sacred books. D1811.2.1
• Sacred book or manuscript does not burn in fire. D1841.3.3
• Fire turns aside and refuses to catch hold of holy garments, wooden altars and similar sacred things. D2158.1.3.2
• Resuscitation by sacred relics. E64.12
• Ghosts summoned by sacred book. E383
• Taro planted in sacred spot inexhaustibly prolific. F815.6.1
• Catching the devil. The devil is caught with the help of a sacred article (rosary, scapular) or some other thing (band for binding breeches, a switch of the rowan-tree). G303.16.19.18
• Sacred animals branded by conjurer. H55.2
• Task: setting fire to brush wood near abode of sacred cobra. H1156.1
• Test of steadfastness of love for God: though warned in dream man refuses to part with sacred stone. H1573.5
• Repartee based on levity toward sacred persons and things. J1261
• Devil cheated by having priest draw a sacred circle about the intended victim. K218.1
• Escape by asking to ride on sacred buffalo. K551.6.1
• Trickster concealed in sacred tree advises that he is to marry the princess. K1971.10
• Oath taken on sacred object. M114
• Oath on sacred book. M114.1
• Swearing on sacred relics. M114.4
• Oath by touching sacred thread. M114.6
• Promise to dying man sacred. M258
• Sacred animal unwittingly killed. N361
• Stranger accidentally chosen king. Picked up by sacred elephant. N683
• The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him. P319.4
• Punishment for killing sacred whale. Q211.6.2
• Punishment for trying to harm sacred animal. Glutton tries to kill a pig dedicated to St. Anthony. The pig turns upon him and tramples him severely. Q228
• Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.) Q467.2
• Prisoner massacred. R51.4
• Woman hidden in sacred place which her lover is not supposed to dare to enter. R53.2
• Sacred prostitution. T457
• Childbirth assisted by sacred stone. T584.0.6
• Sacred rivers and lakes. (Cf. A425.) V1.6.2.1
• Sacred fire. V1.6.3.1
• Sacred stones. V1.6.4.1
• Sacred shells. V1.6.4.2
• Sacred tree. V1.7.1