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• Goddess of thousand eyes discovered by lousing. A475.1.1.1
• Pale sun made right again by using egg, yellow grass, etc. A721.4
• Sun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing night. A728.3
• Earth supported on post. The post has an old woman as guardian. When she is hungry the post shakes, causing earthquakes. A843
• Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. A1756
• Animal cursed for refusing to carry holy fugitive across stream. (Cf. A2371.2.1.) A2231.7.2
• Animal characteristics: lending and refusing to receive back. A2243
• Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
• Tabu: lousing supernatural wife. C31.7
• Tabu: using altar for secular purposes. C51.1.1
• Tabu: refusing credit to god. C53
• Tabu: refusing homage to saint's bell. C94.8
• Tabu: using miracle for trifling purpose. C96
• Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. C152.2
• Tabu: refusing to elope with woman who desires it. C192
• Tabu: refusing a feast. C282
• Tabu: refusing to eat food demanded and supplied. C288
• Tabu: using any except one certain phrase. C495
• Tabu: using obscene language. C496
• Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). C535
• Tabu: using magic power after nightfall. C752.1.6
• Tabu: using magic power too often. C762.1
• Tabu: refusing combat to anyone. C835.1
• Tabu: bearded man refusing combat. C835.1.1
• Tabu: using food for unworthy purpose. C851.1
• Tabu: using grain to clean child. C851.1.2
• Tabu: abusing women or children. C867.1
• Tabu: bearded men abusing women and children. C867.1.0.1
• Tabu: refusing a request. C871
• Tabu: bearded man refusing request. C871.0.1
• Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. C872
• Tabu: using leaven for cooking. C888
• Tabu: using stone fish-hooks. C895
• "Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman. C929.1
• Transformation by lousing. D583
• Disenchantment by causing enchanted person to speak. D762.1
• Disenchantment by refusing to eat for three days. D764.7
• Disenchantment by using powder. D771.3
• Disenchantment by using wand. D771.4
• Magic object recovered by using second magic object. D881
• Magic sleep by lousing. Picking the lice from the head of an old person or an ogre is used to put him to sleep. D1962.2
• Hair of victim burned, causing his death. D2061.2.2.4.1
• Tormenting by sympathetic magic. Person (usually witch) tormented by abusing an animal or object. The usual methods of abuse are burning or sticking with pins. D2063.1.1
• Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die. D2071.0.3
• Saint kindles her lamp or candle without using fire. D2158.1.5.1
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Precautions taken with corpse before burial to prevent evil spirits from getting, using body. (Cf. E431.) E752.10
• Fairies, directed by druid, bring about death of king by causing fish-bone to stick in his throat. F363.1
• Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.) F378.6
• Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. F381.4
• Dwarf splits wood using penis as wedge. F451.3.4.10
• Labyrinth. Series of rooms so confusing that one cannot find the way out. F781.1
• Witches ride on tubs using goose wings for oars. G241.4.1
• Witch's horns discovered by lousing her. G253
• Lousing as task set by ogre. G466
• Task: causing dry spring to flow again. H1193
• Task: causing silent person to speak. H1194.0.1
• Task: causing sickness to come to certain tribe. H1199.2.1
• Test of valor: rousing servant's anger. Nobleman, when examining servants for hire, bids each stand before him and comb his long beard. Occasionally he snaps at them as if to bite them. Those who dodge he lets go; those who offer fight he employs. H1561.4
• Execution evaded by using three wishes. King ordains that guest who turns his plate shall be executed, but orders that anyone so condemned shall have three wishes granted. One of the wishes: to have all blinded who saw him turn the plate. He is freed. J1181.1
• Multiplying his talents. Priest is entrusted with reforming five dissolute nuns. Gets all five with child. The priest is rebuked for not using his "talents" when tempted. He answers: "God gave me five talents and I have added five more!" (Pun on word talent.) J1264.7
• Bishop and prince. Peasant tells bishop, who rides by with forty horses, that he wonders if St. Kilian at Würzburg is also riding with forty horses. Bishop excuses extravagance by saying that he is also a prince and that it is the prince, not the bishop, who is using the horses. "If the prince should become a fool, what would the bishop do then?" J1289.2
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• Three reasons for refusing credit. A man asks for credit, although he has always paid cash before. He is refused on these grounds: either (1) he has never found anyone to trust him, (2) he has never bought anything, or (3) he is rich and does not need an extension of time. J1552.2
• Hungry man eats intestines of fish next morning after refusing to do so the evening before. J1606.1
• Using the lamb to get an audience. Peasant calls on lawyer for advice. Lawyer says that he is busy. Peasant returns with lamb. The lawyer hears its bleat and grants the audience. J1653
• Sound of water dripping on dinner pail thought to be ghost using pick in mine. J1782.2.1
• Three brothers take turns using mule. None of them feeds him, supposing that the others have. The mule dies. J1914.2
• Servant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eat. J2064
• By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. K232.1
• Theft after putting owner to sleep by lousing her. K331.2.1.1
• Thief pretends to have recovered stolen horse. Returns it to owner after using it all he desires. K416.1
• Robber with hand of glory killed. A robber disguised as a beggar gets night's lodging at a farm house. Using a candle made of human fat or hand of a corpse, he tries to charm the household into a deep sleep (D1162.2.1). One man who is suspicious and has not gone to sleep sees this and kills the robber. K437.2
• Escape by pretended lousing. Captive pretends to louse the captor but deceives him by cracking berries in the teeth (or the like). K611.1
• Attempted capture by causing animal to make noise. K756.2
• Attempted capture by causing owner's pig to squeal at night. K756.2.1
• Deception by pretended lousing. K874
• Girl refusing her lover final kiss provokes rival to admit selling kisses. K1275.1
• Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. K1569.5
• Sham physician: using the flea powder. Catch the flea, open its mouth, and place the powder inside. K1955.4
• Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sickness. K2123
• Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food. K2141
• Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
• Daughter lousing mother weeps and reveals secret. N466
• Two brothers are confusingly like each other. P251.5.2
• Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc. Q41.2
• Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint. Q331.2.1.3.1
• Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.5.3
• Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. Q478.4
• Sun and Moon captured by creditor, thus causing eclipse. R9.1.2
• Exposure in jungle for refusing to marry according to father's wishes. S322.1.2.1
• Man weeds garden from cushioned rocking chair, using fire tongs to reach weeds. W111.5.13
• Man who insists on using everything that is useful. W152.14
• Stutterer tries to give alarm. Amusing results. X135.2
• One lie a year. A man who tells but one lie a year is believed because of his general truthfulness. Amusing results. X901
• Snake strikes object, causing it to swell. X1205.1