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• Lonely creator. The creator is tired of solitude and therefore inaugurates the creation. A73
• New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
• Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
• Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there. A751
• Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment. A751.1
• Man in moon is put there as punishment for cursing God. A751.1.2
• Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns. A751.1.4
• Man in moon a frog which has jumped into person's face and remains there. A751.3.1
• Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun. A751.5.2
• Spots on moon a banyan tree planted there by creator to diminish its light. A751.6.1
• Girl with tree carried to moon and is seen there. A751.8.5
• Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable. A759.1
• Raft in primeval sea. Creator is on the raft and there creates the earth. (Cf. A812.) A813
• Why there is no mist on a certain river: fanned away with a pair of eagle's wings. A937
• Origin of sacred post (placed there by ancestral culture hero). A992.1
• Why there are one-eyed women. A1316.3.2
• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
• Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. A2004
• Tortoise hurled on rock: half falls on land, half in water. Therefore amphibious. A2214.5
• Owl will not betray curate: therefore may live in steeple. (Cf. A2433.4.1.) A2229.3
• Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.) A2233.4
• Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy. A2261.4
• Animal persuaded to amputate limb: therefore lacks it. (Cf. A2371.2.10, A2377.1.) A2284.1
• Coyote persuaded to break leg: therefore has thin right leg. (Cf. A2371.2.6.) A2284.5
• Why there is meat in front of the caribou's lower legs. A2371.2.5
• Why there are no snakes in Ireland. A2434.2.3
• Why there are wild turkeys in a certain Pueblo town. A2434.3.2
• Why there is enmity between certain animals and man. A2585
• Ash-tree late at distribution of qualities at creation: therefore buds last. (Cf. A2771.1.) A2725.1
• Why there are knots on the saja tree. A2755.4.1
• Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint. B256.5
• Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. B874.3.2
• Tabu: chief being in ale-house when there is no story-telling. C564.1
• Forbidden well. (One may not go there unless accompanied by cup-bearers.) C623
• Food left on magic stone brings good luck thereafter. (Cf. D931.) D1561.1.6
• Magic waxing and waning of strength. It waxes till noon and wanes thereafter. D1836
• Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. D1904
• Witch made to enter boulder magically and imprisoned therein. D2078.1
• Withered and dead trees suddenly blossom at saint's command. D2157.3
• Feathered skin magically grafted to bald head. D2161.3.4.1
• Ghost of father slaps son's face; a cancer grows there. E265.1.2
• Sound of ethereal music. E402.4
• Ghosts gathered on a bridge. E496
• Ghost strikes man on face: cancer grows there. E542.1.4.1
• Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest. E593.1
• There are to be two resurrections. E751.0.1
• Voyage to Isle of the Dead. Visitors who sleep there die. F129.4.4
• Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) F335.1
• Water-spirits must be in water before dawn; delay is punished with death. (Cf. F451.3.2.1. and cross-references there given.) F420.3.4.2
• Seemingly worthless gifts of water-spirits turn to gold. (Cf. F451.5.1.4. and cross references there given.) F420.5.1.7.2
• Dwarfs kidnap mortals. (Cf. F420.5.2.2. and cross-references there given.) F451.5.2.4
• Dwarfs and Christianity. (Cf. F420.5.3.4. and cross-references there given. Cf. also F451.9.1.6.) F451.5.9
• Farmer is so bothered by brownie that he decides he must move to get rid of the annoyance. He piles all furniture on wagon and starts for new home, meets acquaintance who remarks: "I see you're flitting." Brownie sticks his head out of the churn on top of the load, answers: "Yes, we're flitting." Farmer goes back to former home. F482.3.1.1
• Brownies dance. (Cf. F471.1.1.2. and cross-references there given.) F482.5.1
• Feathered people. F521.2
• Giantess daughter of giant and abducted maiden (therefore helps hero). F531.5.7.1.2
• Magic phantom army. Created out of puffballs and withered leaves. F585.2
• Tree of fire. (Cf. F785.3. and other references there given). F811.1.4
• Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
• When dead man's body is thrown into lake, water turns pitch black and all living creatures therein die. F934.5
• Icicles gathered by saint as firewood burn. F962.9
• Extraordinary wind bursts open locked doors of church to show that dead pope is worthy of burial there. [Inadvertant duplication of Q147.2.] F963.3
• Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there. F974
• Wound received in dream. Still there when person wakes. F1068.2
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Devil in interior of earth. Banished there by God as punishment for trying to usurp God's rule of the world. G303.8.5
• Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
• Wolf eats the devil; therefore, devil no longer lives in the world. G303.17.3.3
• Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically. G311
• Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.) H215.3
• Gold in the Bible. A man professes to be a great Bible reader. King leaves a piece of money in the Bible. On his next visit it is still there. H261
• Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. H382.1
• Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have! Princess: There is fire inside. – Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg). H507.1.0.1
• Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.) H583.8
• Symbolic interpretation of church and image therein. H619.2
• How far is it from earth to heaven? A day's journey, since there is no inn to stop at on the way. H682.1.2
• How far is it from earth to heaven? Not far; when it thunders there it can be heard here. H682.1.6
• How many hairs are there in the head? As many as are in the tail of my ass; if you don't believe it we will keep pulling out one hair from your beard and one from his tail. H703.1
• How many leaves are on the tree? As many as there are stems for. H705.1
• Are there more men or women in the world? H708
• Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.) H772
• Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.) H773
• Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.) H774
• What is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The land on which the waters were gathered after the creation.) H822.1
• Task: making withered flowers green. H1023.3.2
• Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.) H1117
• Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
• Man with magic knowledge defeats his competitors in quest by misinforming them about the character of country they will be traveling (for a place where there is no water he makes them bring loads of wood; for a place where water is he makes them bring along loads of water). H1239.4
• Test of patience: those who wish to enter city gate must endure insults of old men there who mock them. H1553.3
• "Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge. J21.16
• Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
• Trained deer drinks wine till he breaks his leg but thereafter abstains. Thus teaches lesson to master. J133.3
• Crow flying away says, "A wise man remains not in the place of calamity; but a fool stays there, and sups fear and sorrow." J171.3.1
• Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
• The smaller the evil the better. Therefore choose the smallest woman possible for a bride. J229.10
• Lion licks sick man, who is thereby disgusted. J413.1
• Fool given the truth on his back. He tells his master what the servants have done during his absence. The servants whip him on his bare back, saying at each blow, "That is the truth." When the master returns and tells the fool to tell the truth, the latter replies, "There is nothing worse on earth than the truth." J551.2
• Wild-boar sharpens tusks when no enemy is in sight. Tells fox that when enemy comes there are other things to do. J674.1
• More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1