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• Culture hero fights with (encounters) son without recognizing him. A515.5
• Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them. A1225.2
• Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods. A1271.1
• First people have everything they wish (life without work). A1346.2.2
• Theft of fire. Mankind is without fire. A culture hero steals it from the owner. A1415
• Food originally obtained without effort. A1420.4
• First men without beards: Cain, Abel. A1597.1
• Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. A1756
• Too cold for hare (dog) to build house in winter, not necessary in summer: must go without house. A2233.2.1
• Bird neglects to build nest: goes without. (Cf. A2431.2.) A2233.4.1
• Why rat's tail is round and without any hair. (Cf. A2378.9.5.) A2317.12.3
• Why the elephant lives without a hut. A2432.10
• Why animals eat everything without salt. A2435.2.1
• Horses travel between clerics without guidance. B151.1.1.0.1
• Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) B754.6
• Patient sits before tempting meal without eating; animal emerges. B784.2.2
• Girl removes dog from lion's claws without being harmed. B848.2
• Tabu: landing on floating island of the gods without invitation. C93.8
• Sex tabu broken: child born without bones. C101
• Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." C181.7
• Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. C221.4.2
• Tabu: drinking without presence of dead heads. C281
• Tabu: eating without giving thanks. C283
• Tabu: consuming feast without discovering a new wonder. C287
• Tabu: appearing before king without having been summoned. C563.5
• Tabu: chief to be in large company without wolf-hounds. C564.3
• Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something. C566.2
• Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Well upon which no one can look without losing his eyes. C623.1
• Tabu: bathing without straining stream afterwards. C721.3
• Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. C746
• Tabu: reddening weapons without satiety. C835.2.5
• Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat. C835.3
• Tabu: going to battle without being clothed in silk. C878.2.1
• Tabu: watching game without aiding loser. C882
• Tabu: crossing graveyard without alighting. C883
• Tabu: stranger to play with someone without asking permission. C892
• Girl disenchants animal husband by enduring his embraces without fear. D735.4.1
• Son disenchants animal father by enduring his caresses without fear. D735.4.2
• Vegetable supporting life without other food. (Cf. D1034.) D1472.1.4
• Oven heats without fire. (Cf. D1161, D1649.5.) D1601.6
• Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) D1602.12
• Magic power of person without sin. D1714
• Wishes granted without limit. D1761.0.1
• Saint walks through glowing coals without harm. D1841.3.2.2
• Red hot iron carried with the bare hands without harm to the saint. D1841.3.2.3
• Holy maidens carry glowing embers in their chasubles without being burned. D1841.3.2.4
• Walking upon water without wetting the soles or garments. D1841.4.3
• Immortality useless without eternal youth. D1850.1
• Death evaded. Person enters on the next life without dying. D1856
• "The Two Sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven": Elijah and Enoch pass to otherworld without dying. D1856.1.1
• 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
• Sailing in a leaky boat without sinking. D2121.13
• Saint kindles her lamp or candle without using fire. D2158.1.5.1
• Cooking and baking done without fire. D2158.1.5.2
• Vampire's power overcome by endurance and prayer. Hero continues to pray without looking or speaking while vampire punishes him. E251.1.1
• The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) E332.3.3.1
• Monk who dies without his cowl cannot rest in grave. E411.7
• Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest. E412.3
• Dead man comes back because he was buried without a cap. E412.3.1
• Dead man asks for shoes (was buried without them). E412.3.3
• Revenant sleeps in same bed with living but without contact. E472
• In land of dead the dead walk on grass without bending it and on mud without sinking. (Cf. F973.2.) E489.9
• The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor. E511
• Men who behave irrationally (without plans) reincarnations of animals. E656.1
• Dead person of good life goes over bridge to otherworld without fear. E750.2.1
• Translation to otherworld without dying. (Cf. F12.3.) F2
• Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) F11.2
• Voyage to land without evil. F111.6
• Journey to land without sky: takes whole life. Premature aging. F126
• Place in underworld beyond which hero cannot pass without being tatooed. F151.1.5
• Fairy house without doors. F221.5
• Fairies dance on leaves without disturbing them. F261.2.1
• Fairy music – person listening is without food or sleep for a year. F262.5
• Spirits without heads (or with heads under arms). F401.4
• The seas become heavy without natural cause. (Cf. F420.2.4.) F420.1.5.3
• Wood-spirit without hands, feet, or mouth. F441.4.2
• Dwarfs dislike bread baked without salt. F451.3.7.2
• House-spirit without bones or hair. F480.5
• Person without features (with flat face). F511.1.0.1
• Person without ears. F511.2.4
• Person without eyes. F512.5
• Person without teeth. F513.1.4
• Person without tongue. F513.2
• Person without hands. F515.0.1
• Person without feet. (Cf. F167.7.) F517.1.1
• Person without back. F525.6
• People without anuses. F529.2
• People without anuses make them by sitting on pegs. F529.2.1
• Person without joints. F529.7.1
• Giant without hair. F531.1.6.3.2
• Giants in "Risaland" or "Jotunheimar" without nearer definition. F531.6.2.0.1
• Marvelous hand without wrist. F552.4
• King so old that he cannot get on horseback without help. F571.6
• Woman without womb. F597
• Man presses out twelve measures of oil without the help of bullocks. F639.7
• Archer shoots and marks egg in nest without breaking it or disturbing other eggs. F661.4.2
• Skillful surgeon removes speck from midge's eye. Does it with one stroke without injuring midge. F668.2
• Thief can eat from man's plate during dinner without detection. F676.1