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• Old man from sky as creator. – Old man with his wife comes from the sky. Are the first couple on earth. Have seven sons and seven daughters. Each son marries a daughter. A21.2
• God with seven heads. A123.4.1.2
• God represented as among seven sheaths of fire. A137.17
• The seven grain sisters. A433.2
• Seven demigods. A501.1
• Culture hero has seven pupils in each eye, seven toes on each foot, seven fingers on each hand. A526.5
• Seven heavens. A series of seven upper worlds. A651.1.4
• Seventeen-storied heaven. A651.1.8.1
• Seven lower worlds. A651.2.3
• Seven worlds above and below. An angel upholds the seven worlds on his shoulders. Under him in turn are: rock, bull, fish, vast sea, air, fire, and serpent. A651.3.1
• Windows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmament. A661.0.6
• Heaven surrounded by seven walls. A661.0.9
• Formerly seven suns. A720.1
• Formerly seven moons. A759.5
• Pleiades seven illegitimate children. A773.4
• Seven seas encircle the world. A872.1
• Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
• Flood: refuge in huge gourds with seven rooms in each. A1029.4
• End of world when four (seven) suns appear in sky. A1052.3
• Seven days silence in whole universe at the end of the world. A1057
• Nature transformed by God once in seven years. A1103
• Seven substances employed in composition of human body. A1260.1.4
• Holy day established on seventh day. A1541.4.0.1
• Seven whistlers are the souls of the Jews who crucified Christ. (Cf. F456.1.1.1.) A1715.3
• Creation of plover (known as seven whistlers). (Cf. A1715.1.) A1941
• Dove and magpie exchange eggs – dove's seven for magpie's two: why dove has two eggs. (Cf. A2486.3.) A2247.4
• Seven-headed dragon. B11.2.3.1
• Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.) B12.1
• Seven-headed animal. B15.1.2.6
• Seven-headed serpent. B15.1.2.6.1
• Seven-legged beast. B15.6.3.3
• Bird shows way by dropping feathers every seven steps. B151.2.0.1
• Blowing serpent. Can blow through seven church walls but not through a pair of hose. B743
• Female snake seven years pregnant. B765.25
• Giant horse: hair from the tail is seven yards. B871.1.5
• Tabu: speaking during seven days of danger. As result of prophecy of seven days of danger, an injunction of silence is imposed during this period. C401.2
• Tabu: sleeping before lapse of seven days in cloudland. C735.2.1.1
• Seven girls in guise of seven parrots come to boy who has spurned them. D658.3.3
• Disenchantment by laying collected bones in a seven-fold cloth and spreading another above it. D717.1
• Three soldiers in the enchanted manor. Curiosity overcoming them they forfeit the power of disenchanting the princesses. Seven seven-year-old boys break the spell and save the princess. D759.10
• Disenchantment produced by hero winning series of contests with seven demons. D785.1
• Disenchantment at end of seven years. D791.1.1
• Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
• Disenchantment possible at the end of seven hundred years. D791.1.6
• Seven as magic number. D1273.1.3
• Seven-league boots. Boots with miraculous speed. (Cf. D1065.1.) D1521.1
• Magic fire burns for seven years. (Cf. D1271.) D1672.0.1
• Seventy-two kinds of wisdom mastered by Adam. D1811.0.1
• Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. D1960.1
• King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
• Evil eye covered with seven veils. D2071.0.1
• Cure by seventh son of seventh daughter. D2161.5.7
• Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. E266.1.1
• Wild hunt appears every seven years. E501.11.3.1
• Dead person visits earth every seven years. E585.1
• Spectre rides to castle every seven years. E585.2
• Seven reincarnations. E604.1
• Soul hidden in apple (ball) in a salmon which appears every seven years in certain fountain. (Cf. D1651.10.) E713.1
• Souls of sinners to spend seven years under waters of the sea before Doomsday. E751.5
• Lost soul to serve as porter in hell for seven years. E755.2.3
• Headless man lives four (seven) years. (Cf. Q551.8.5.) E783.7
• Ishtar unveiled. Goddess going to lower world passes through seven gates, at each of which she is divested of a garment till she is entirely unclothed. F85
• Divine swans are on an inaccessible island in middle of seven seas. F134.4
• Otherworld surrounded by seven walls and locks of iron and doors of iron. F148.5
• Fairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.) F262.9
• Man to have fairy wife for only seven years. F302.10
• Man lives with fairies seven years. F379.3
• Water-spirit claims a life every seven years. F420.5.2.1.6
• Dwarfs are superstitious about the three sevens in 1777. (Cf. F451.9.1.3.) F451.3.15.1
• The three sevens in 1777 drive dwarfs out of the land. F451.9.1.3
• Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle. F481.0.1.1
• Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations). F526.5
• Eye with seven pupils. (Cf. A526.5.) F541.3.4
• Woman's beauty shows through seven veils. F574.1.2
• Man with seventy men's strength. F610.4.3
• Strong hero suckled by seven women. F611.2.4
• Hero drives spear through seven iron plates. F625.1
• Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth. F642.2
• Seven stags killed at one shot. F679.5.3.1
• Extremely deep water. Axe seven years reaching bottom. F713.2.1
• Kingdom where seven rivers meet. F715.8
• Island rises once every seven years. F735.0.2
• Island supported on seven feet. F736.1.1
• Mountain of seven lights. F759.8
• Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. F771.11
• Palace with seven gates, one within the other. F776.3
• Seven-fold doors to room. F782.3
• Nimrod's multiple throne. Seven thrones on top of one another. Stone, cedar, iron, copper, silver, gold, precious stones. F785.2
• Seven forts – river, iron, mud, cow-dung, brick, stone, wood. F789.1
• Artificial heavens. Placed on pillars of iron. Seven heavens. (1) glass, sun, moon, stars, (2) iron with lake in it, (3) tin with precious stones rolling about (thunder), (4) lead, (5) copper, (6) silver, (7) gold. F792
• Extraordinary flower-bearing tree in middle of seven forts. F811.23
• Gourds with seven rooms in each. F813.5.1
• Sun, moon, and stars do not shine seven days, mourning Adam's death. F961.0.3.1
• Toad carries seven stone mortars on his head. F982.6
• Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. F986.3
• Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs – three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color – but dies. F987.1
• Seven-mouthed cannibal ogre. G11.17
• Seven-headed witch. G215.1
• Seven-headed witch defeated by throwing egg at each head. G275.4
• Seven-headed ogre. G361.1.4