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• God summoned by weeping. A189.2
• Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master). B271.3
• Animal gives part of body as talisman for summoning its aid. B501
• Buffalo give hero horns for summoning them. B501.1
• Merry horn and angry horn for summoning buffalo. When all is well hero is to blow on merry-horn; when in trouble on angry-horn. B501.1.1
• Kite teaches rhyme by which he may be summoned for help. B501.2
• Animal gives jewel for summoning him when in need of help. B501.3
• The Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the load. C11
• "Adversity" summoned: king says he has heard people speak of adversity but has never seen it; genius of adversity appears. C14
• Tabu: appearing before king without having been summoned. C563.5
• Helper summoned by calling his name. D1420.4
• Magic object summons helper. D1421
• Magic bell summons helper. D1421.0.1
• Magic ashes summon helper. (Cf. D931.1.2.) D1421.0.2
• Magic hair when thrown into fire summons supernatural. helper. (Cf. D991.) D1421.0.3
• Magic object summons genie. D1421.1
• Magic tinder summons genie. (Cf. D1175.1.) D1421.1.1
• Magic fire-steel summons genie. (Cf. D1175.2.) D1421.1.2
• Magic book summons genie. (Cf. D1266.) D1421.1.3
• Magic light summons genie. (Cf. D1162.) D1421.1.4
• Magic lamp summons genie. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1421.1.5
• Magic ring summons genie. (Cf. D1076.) D1421.1.6
• Magic incense (when burned) summons genie. D1421.1.7
• Magic sword (rubbed) summons genie. (Cf. D1081.) D1421.1.8
• Magic hair summons demon. (Cf. D991.) D1421.1.9
• Magic roll of cloth summons demon. (Cf. D1051.) D1421.1.10
• Magic chain summons genie. (Cf. D1251.) D1421.1.11
• Magic pipe summons genie. (Cf. D1224.) D1421.1.12
• Magic ring summons air spirits. (Cf. D1076.) D1421.1.13
• Opening bottle summons genie. (Cf. D1171.8.) D1421.1.14
• Magic object summons water-spirit. D1421.2
• Magic arrow summons water-spirit. (Cf. D1092.) D1421.2.1
• Magic object summons dwarfs. (Cf. F451.) D1421.3
• Magic fiddle summons dwarfs. (Cf. D1233.) D1421.3.1
• Magic flute summons dwarfs. (Cf. D1223.1.) D1421.3.2
• Magic charm summons dwarfs. (Cf. D1273.) D1421.3.3
• Magic object summons giant. D1421.4
• Magic hairs summon giant. He gives hero some hairs from his own beard. (Cf. D991.) D1421.4.1
• Magic bow summons giant. (Cf. D1091.) D1421.4.2
• Magic object summons army for rescue. D1421.5
• Magic horn summons army for rescue. (Cf. D1222.) D1421.5.1
• Magic charm summons army. (Cf. D1273.) D1421.5.2
• Magic object summons fairy. D1421.6
• Magic flute summons fairy. (Cf. D1223.1.) D1421.6.1
• Magic hairs summon husband. (Cf. D991.) D1425.2
• Magic fan summons prince for heroine. (Cf. D1077.) D1425.3
• Swine summoned out of magic harp. (Cf. D1231.) D1449.3
• Reptile-men cure snake bites, and can summon together snakes (or mice) and lead them away anywhere. D1711.13
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Deer summoned by singing. D2074.1.1.2
• Bear summoned by magic. D2074.1.1.3
• Person summoned by thinking of him. D2074.2.1
• Summoning by burning hair. D2074.2.2
• Long-plaited hair struck on ground summons female goddess to aid of owner. D2074.2.2.1
• Summoning by wish. D2074.2.3
• Mistress summoned by wish. D2074.2.3.1
• Ship summoned by wish. D2074.2.3.2
• Foster-mother summoned by saying her name. D2074.2.4.1
• Animals summoned by pronouncing their names. D2074.2.4.2
• Helper summoned by calling his name. D2074.2.4.3
• Summoning by prayer. (Cf. V52.) D2074.2.5
• Sword received from summoned dead father. E373.2
• Ghost summoned. E380
• Summoning souls punished: in hour of man's death they overwhelm him. E380.1
• Ghost summoned by weeping. E381
• Ghost summoned by pouring blood of sacrifices into trench. E382
• Ghosts summoned by sacred book. E383
• Ghost summoned by music. E384
• Ghost summoned by beating drum. E384.1
• Ghost summoned by blast on horn (whistle). E384.3
• Other means of summoning ghost. E386
• Ghost summoned by holy water. E386.1
• Ghost summoned by charm. E386.2
• Ghosts summoned by calling them by name. E386.3
• Reasons for summoning of ghosts. E387
• Ghost summoned in order to talk to it. E387.1
• Ghost summoned to get something from it. E387.2
• Father summoned to get his sword. E387.2.1
• Ghost summoned for purposes of necromancy. E387.3
• Ghost summoned – miscellaneous. E389
• Ghost must be summoned by king else he appears head downward. E389.1
• Summoned ghost audible and visible only to person who has summoned him. E389.2
• Account book of men summoned to death kept in heaven. E481.8.1
• Summoning fairy lover. F301.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by breaking tabu. F301.1.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by wishing for him. F301.1.1.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by plucking flowers. F301.1.1.2
• Girl summons fairy lover by lying under tree. F301.1.1.3
• Girl summons fairy lover by pulling nuts. F301.1.1.4
• Hair burned to summon fairies. F398
• Means of summoning spirits. F404
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• The gray and the black hairs: enemies reconciled. Duke summons two inveterate enemies. Has them tear out one of his hairs, one a gray, the other a black. Both pain him equally. He shows how their quarrels hurt him. They are reconciled. J83
• Man pretends idiocy so as to avoid compromising himself when summoned to testify by two rival queens before the king. J822.1
• Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2
• The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquitted. J1174.3
• Ass's charter in his hoof. The ass absents himself from the parliament of beasts. The lion sends the fox and the wolf to summon him. He pleads his charter of exemption and invites the fox to read it in his hoof. (Cf. K551.18.) J1608
• Trickster summons all creditors at once, precipitates fight, and escapes payment. K234
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's summons of wild buffalo herd. K335.0.13
• Clever woman being robbed makes excuse for screaming and summoning help. K432.1