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• God whose shadow on earth is a lizard. A446.1.1
• Death kills only those whose time it is to die. A487.0.1
• Intermediate future world. Residence for those whose good and evil deeds exactly counterbalance. A693
• Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents. B12
• Dog (whose skin) turns water to wine (mead). B119.1
• Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints. B184.2.3.3
• Cow whose bellowing defeats army. B741.3
• Tabu: marriage with person whose blood one has drunk. C165
• Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
• Untouchables. Certain castes whose touch is considered a pollution. C551
• Transformation to likeness of person whose shield one carries. (Cf. D1101.1). D40.1
• Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
• Clairvoyant spring. Lady whose lover is absent to look in spring each day. If she sees his shadow, he is about to marry another. (Cf. D927.) D1323.12.1
• Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
• Person whose shadow is pierced by spear falls dead. D2061.2.2.1
• Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. F344.2
• Persons whose heads are stone-hammers. F511.0.3
• Men whose feet turn backward so that they will not stub toes. F517.1.5.1
• Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs. F594
• River whose specific gravity is so slight nothing can float on it. (Cf. F716.2.) F715.10
• Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank. F1071.1
• Devil has shining teeth. Girl wishes to marry man whose teeth shine. Such a man appears and they marry. When he removes his hat she finds he is the devil. G303.4.1.5.1
• Devil drives carriage drawn by horses whose nostrils shoot fire. G303.7.3.2
• Devil marries girl whose rich mother refuses to let her marry common young men of community. G303.12.5.3
• Demon drags beneath the water any person whose shadow falls on surface of water. G336.1
• Grade of holiness tested: one whose candle burns down first. H257.1
• Suitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin Mary. H331.3
• What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) H842.3
• Task left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is and whose real father he is. She accomplishes this by disguising as a girl. H1187
• Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other. H1194.1
• Quest for unknown woman whose picture has aroused man's love. (Cf. H1381.3.1.1.1.) H1381.3.1.2.1
• Young man advised to choose as wife a girl whose mother was chaste. J482.3
• Thornbush blamed by fox for wounding him. He should have known better than to lay hold of something whose nature is to lay hold of others. J656.1
• Man whose wife gives him bath only once a week comforted by one who does so once a year. J882.3
• Person asks: "Whose fool are you?" Answer: "I am the Bishop of Durham's fool; whose fool are you?" J1369.4
• Has never died yet. Slave (workman) recommended to master whose recent slaves have died: "He has never died while I owned him." J1455
• Will work when beaten. A wife whose husband has beaten her sends a rumor to the sick king that her husband is a skilled physician but will practice only when he is well beaten. He is seized and whipped. J1545.1
• Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes. J1577.1
• Extravagant woman whose husband continually finds fault with her. J1701.1
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Fool whose house is burning puts wood on the fire. J2162.2
• Whose duty to put out fire? Officers investigate; meanwhile fire burns town. J2183.6.1
• Healing with the cherry tree. A man whose wife refuses to talk remembers that a priest drank black cherry juice whenever he lost his voice. He cannot get the cordial but concluding that a limb of the cherry tree will have the same effect beats his wife with is. She is cured. J2412.5
• Deceptive wager: whose horse will jump highest. The trickster has his worthless horse jump out the window. The duke will not let his run the risk. K264.1
• Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
• Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him. K813
• Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned. K898
• Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
• Overlooking the insult. Man consoles daughter whose husband is dying by telling her he has picked another husband for her. She feels insulted. No sooner does her husband die than she asks her father for details. K2052.4.3
• Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives. K2210
• Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stag. M381
• Fathers whose unborn children are affianced wager as to mastery in the house. (Cf. N12.) N16.2
• Wager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wager. N73
• Stupid man grabs tiger in the dark, ties it up, and saddles it, believing it to be a horse. It happens to be the tiger for whose capture a reward has been offered. N691.1.2
• King banishes nobleman whose castle he wants. P12.8
• King orders man whose neck the rope will fit to be executed. P14.18
• King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised. P15.4
• Strangers entertained by family to whose hitching-ring they happen to tie their horses. Thus confusion avoided as to where strangers are to be entertained. P328
• Patriotism: king learning that nation will triumph whose king dies in battle, allows self to be killed. P711.9
• Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Q451.2.1
• Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing. T412.3
• Nightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manure. U144
• Time seems short to those who play, long for those who wait. So says servant girl whose mistress upbraids her for late hours. U261
• Saint shares punishment of sinful man whose cloak he shared in life. V414
• Man whose only good deed was unintentional sees this deed outweigh all his evil in the scales of judgment. V512.2
• The woman whose name was "Worthy." Refuses to say, "I'm not worthy" at communion. X453
• Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1
• Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horse. X1864
• Four brothers construct a woman. Whose is she? Z16.1