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• Origin of villages. A991
• Origin of the village dormitory. A1559.1
• Dragon lives under the ground. By his movements a building or village will be dislodged. (Cf. A1070.) B11.3.5
• Village founded on spot when cock crows, dog barks, and mithian bellows. B155.2.1
• Village of wer-tigers. B221.6.1
• Tabu: embracing at village gate. C194.1
• Tabu: bringing head of slain enemy within village walls. C845.1
• Village sinks in earth for violation of tabu. C984.7
• Village of lion-men. D112.1.1
• Village of tiger-men. (Cf. B221.6.1.) D112.2.1.2
• Log of wood animated by spirit of malignant holy man strikes left and right to kill offending villagers. (Cf. D956.) D1401.8
• Plough of gold and yoke of gold and pair of bullocks used by hero tills as much land as lies within a village boundary in one day. D1620.2.7
• Magic village and people disappear by magic. D2095.1
• Village vanishes. D2188.3
• Ghostly noises disturb village until stolen church plate is returned. (Cf. E402.) E236.7
• Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave. E442.2
• Villages in otherworld. F168
• Bonga made village headman and advice asked. F347.1
• Water-spirits live in village under water. F420.2.2
• Water-maidens dance at village fair. F420.3.2.1.1
• Village of men only. F566.1
• Visit to people of village under lake. F725.5.1
• Village of one-legged people. (Cf. F517.0.1.) F768.3
• What are the most accursed things? A thriftless wife, a baldheaded daughter, a sour-faced daughter-in-law, a crooked axle, and a field which lies across the village road. H659.18.1
• Task: building entire village in one night. H1104.2
• Barber leaves inexpensive village for high wages in city. Finds cost of living more than enough to take all his profit. J342.1
• Man desirous of traveling sent six miles to deliver a letter. Told that he has now seen the world, for he will never see more than valleys, hills, fields, meadows, water, streets, cities, and villages. J1076.1
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• Series of wise judgments settles quarrels of village. J1170.1
• An oath to break oaths. Village called on to join in war deliberates in meeting. A man says, "We have taken oaths not to go to war. We must now take an oath to break all the oaths we have taken." J1458
• Brotherly love and patience both dead. A man failing to receive alms in a village, rings the bell for mass. He tells the sexton that he is ringing because of the death of brotherly love. The sexton rings another bell. It is for the death of the other man's patience. J1633
• Countryman expects to find persons from his own village when he travels to another land. J1742.1
• His address: a big high house. Mayor asked about where he lives, names his village and directs the enquirer to a big high house. J1742.2
• Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt. J2101.1
• Fire set to village so that robbers can steal goods. K336.1
• Hero threatens tiger with plowshare and leads him into village. Frightens villagers. K547.11
• Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail. K581.5
• Man betrayed into eating his own children and setting the village on fire. (Cf. K941.2, K944.) K940.1.1
• Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. L212.4
• Enigmatical prophecy: "He who will kill your child is not here, but in the village." M306.5
• Fairy lays curse on village. M411.16
• Curse on village: descendants never to exceed certain number. (Cf. M475.) M461.1
• Drop of honey causes chain of accidents. Hunter drops honey in a grocery; weasel eats honey; cat chases weasel; dog chases cat; grocer kills dog: all the cause of a bloody feud between villages. N381
• Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. Q421.1.1
• Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry. T52.9
• Children sleep in village dormitory. T688
• Red pepper for the slow ass: man tries it on himself. When, on the advice of a friend, he gives the ass red pepper, the ass runs away. Then he tries it on himself. He runs so fast that he passes the ass. Arriving at home, he says to his wife, "Unload the ass when he comes. I must run through the village a couple of times more." X11
• What will happen when there are so many lawyers. Woman sees the crowds of students in the law school. She knows that the one lawyer in her village has ruined nearly everyone. X311
• Whole village lifted. X941.1
• Village where rubies sell for four pice apiece. X1564