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• Culture hero returns to upper world. A566
• Culture hero (divinity) returns. A581
• Culture hero returns and assists mortals. A581.1
• Culture hero returns and aids followers in battle. A581.2
• Culture hero returns to prove power of saint. A581.3
• Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness. A722.2
• Origin of stones: punishment for discourtesy. Jesus asks a man what he is sowing. He answers, "Stones." Jesus turns the crop to stones. This is how stones originate. A973
• The devil turns object or animal to stone which is still seen. A977.4
• Origin of cold: sun turns fiery face upward. A1135.1.1
• 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
• Woodpecker from devil's herdsman transformed. The devil strikes his herdsman so that he turns into a bird who continually calls after his beloved cow. (Cf. A1710.) A1957.1
• The god Mahadeo turns wood chips into insects. A2002.1
• Dove returns to ark in obedience to Noah: receives sheen of raven. A2221.7
• Discourteous answer: flounder's crooked mouth. When God asks him where he is going, instead of answering he turns to go toward God. His mouth becomes crooked. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2231.1.2
• Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. A2275.6
• Why eagle-owl's head turns on its neck. A2351.2
• Dragon fight: respite granted and dragon returns with renewed strength. B11.11.1
• Dog (whose skin) turns water to wine (mead). B119.1
• Dog returns from dead to clear master of murder. B134.5
• Magic pig turns water into wine for nine days. B184.3.2.2
• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• Fly habitually buzzes when cleric returns from matins. B251.2.4
• Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. B256.11
• Noah's curse admits devil to ark. Devil persuades Noah's wife to stay out of ark till Noah shall call devil in. Noah at last loses patience and calls out, "The devil! Come in!" The devil comes in and turns himself into a mouse. C12.5.1
• Hair turns to gold as punishment in forbidden chamber. (Cf. C611.) C912
• Punishment for broken tabu: good money turns to counterfeit. C939.2
• Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.) C963
• Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken. C963.1
• Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken. C963.2
• Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken. C963.3
• Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu. C967
• Pygmy turns into a giant. D55.1.3
• Every piece of shattered cowrie-shell turns into an armed man. D432.2.1
• Magic charm turns sweets into bugs. (Cf. D522). D449.1
• Transformation: blood to rubies. Turns to rubies as it drops. D457.1.1
• Transformation: blood to milk. Bird caught and told to make milk bleeds and blood turns to milk. D457.1.2
• Fruit juice turns to blood. D474.8
• Paste (smeared on princess's body) turns to gold. D475.1.11
• Mucus turns to gold to reward piety. D475.1.13
• Woman loses eye when she goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas Eve when the water turns to wine. D477.1.2
• Blood turns black. D492.2
• Midas' golden touch. Everything touched turns to gold. D565.1
• Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
• Sea turns to ice to permit flight. D675
• Swine bridegroom. Bride disenchants him by her love. He returns to original form. D733.2
• Magic object returns to original place. D868
• Magic mango returns to tree for broken tabu. D868.1
• Sword turns upon owner when untruth is uttered. (Cf. D1081.) D1316.11
• Each drop of innocent blood turns to burning candle. D1318.5.3
• Flesh of stolen animal cannot be cooked (turns putrid). D1318.7.1.1
• Milk gives magic beauty. When magic milk touches ugly girl she turns beautiful. (Cf. D1018.) D1337.1.3
• Magic stone hits everything and returns by itself. (Cf. D931.) D1401.5
• Magic stone turns everything to gold. (Cf. D1470.1.1., D931.) D1466.1
• Magic water furnishes treasure. Everything it touches turns to gold. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1467
• Magic kettle (cauldron) turns stones to excellent food. D1472.1.11.1
• Hero's breath returns head to headless horseman. (Cf. D1005.) D1518.3
• Hat which turns the sun. (Cf. D1067.1.) D1546.1.1
• Stick turns into automatic magic sword. (Cf. D1081.) D1601.5.1
• Saint's bell when stolen miraculously returns. (Cf. D1213.) D1602.8
• Saint's bachall when lost returns. (Cf. D1277.) D1602.9
• Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) D1602.12
• Arrow shot at bull returns to shooter. (Cf. D1092.) D1602.16
• Magic object when sold always returns to original owner. (Cf. D1605, D1602.11.) D1602.17
• Magic ring when sold returns to original owner. (Cf. D1076.) D1602.17.1
• Magic object given away returns to giver. D1602.18
• Equipment of slain hunter returns alone. (Cf. D1170.) D1602.19
• Magic thieving pot. Boy sells pot to neighbors and when they have put things into it the pot returns to the boy. (Cf. D1171.1.) D1605.1
• Sacred scroll returns to heaven. (Cf. D1266.1, V151.) D1641.11
• Magic object departs and returns at formulistic command. D1686
• Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. D1865.2.1
• Husband's love magically turns to hatred. D1908.1
• Field turns to gold after ascetic plows it. D2102.2.1
• Mosque turns around in order to face in the true direction of Mecca after prayers of two saints. D2136.2.1
• Fire turns aside and refuses to catch hold of holy garments, wooden altars and similar sacred things. D2158.1.3.2
• Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
• Dead lover returns to dance with fickle sweetheart at her wedding. E214.1
• The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife. E221.2
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover). E221.3
• Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
• Dead mother returns to invoke curse on murderer-son. E222.3
• Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess. E231.5
• Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. E232.2
• Ghost returns to slay enemies. E232.4
• Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) E234.0.1
• Ghost returns to demand proper burial. E235.2
• Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. E235.2.2
• Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon. E263
• Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.) E321.2
• Dead husband returns, helps wife knit socks, piece quilts. She shows his work as proof. E321.2.1
• Dead husband returns, asks wife to make him coffee. E321.3
• Dead wife returns and bears children for husband. E322.1
• Dead wife returns to wake husband. E322.2
• Dead wife returns and asks husband to go with her to spirit world. E322.2.1
• Dead wife returns in form of bird. E322.4
• Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death. E322.6
• Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband. E322.7
• Dead mother returns to see baby. E323.1
• Dead mother returns to suckle child. E323.1.1