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• Why the sky receded upward: it was struck by a woman's pestle. A625.2.2
• Raising the sky: striking with broom. Old woman's hump strikes clouds as she sweeps. She strikes at sky with broom and thus raises it. A625.2.3
• Creation of first man's (woman's) mate. A1275
• First woman's mate made from transformed tree. A1275.6
• Origin of knee-caps. A stone that magically joins self to woman's body. A1312.1
• [First Edition: A2102. Fish from Woman's severed fingers. (Cf. A1724.1.)] A2102[1st ed.]
• Bird has red spot on its tail as reward for having moved woman's organ to its present position. A2229.6
• Snake sucks milk from woman's breast. A2435.6.2.1
• Satyr reveals woman's infidelity. B24.1
• Snake body-woman's head. B29.2.3
• Siren. Bird with woman's head. B53
• Bird betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B134.1.) B131.3
• Dog betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B1313.) B134.1
• Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. B765.4.1
• Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
• Tabu: man entering woman's quarters in her absence. C182.2
• Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. C942.4
• Petrification when woman's voice is heard. D529.1
• Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.) D702.1.1
• Hog's forefoot cut off: woman's hand missing. D702.1.2
• Disenchantment of animal by admission to woman's bed. D734
• "Milk-medicine" causes milk to appear in woman's breast. (Cf. D1241.) D1379.5
• Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. D1427.2
• Ashes from burned snake-woman's body will turn anything into gold. D1469.10.1
• Woman's labor pains magically eased. D2161.1.3
• Corpse bites off woman's nose. E259.1
• Woman's hand rises from grave and gives man performing vigil letter of salvation. E373.3
• Rebirth by crawling into woman's womb. E607.2.2
• Huldra-woman's cap. F460.1.4.3
• Giantess transforms self to fly in order to tear woman's stomach. F531.1.8.5
• Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark. F574.1
• Woman's beauty burns onlooker. F574.1.1
• Woman's beauty shows through seven veils. F574.1.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. F647.6
• Loom made of woman's breasts with vagina as shuttle. F856.1
• Woman's body used as still. F891.1
• Fish disappear from sea. Punishment for woman's having washed a child with a fish. F931.2
• Earth opens at woman's bidding to enclose her. F942.3.1
• Witch sucks blood from woman's or child's breasts. G262.1.2
• Devils in woman's train. G303.8.9
• Chaplain administers sacrament and saves woman's soul from devil. G303.16.5.1
• The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. G303.20.5
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• Recognition of disenchanted person by thread in his teeth. As werwolf he has torn woman's apron and caught thread in teeth. H64.1
• Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband. H331.4.2
• Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity. H400
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• Old woman's willingness to die for daughter disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5.1
• Woman throws apple to man in woman's dress. He puts his legs together to catch it. (Cf. H1578.1.4.) H1578.1.4.1
• "Do not take a woman's advice": counsel proved wise by experience. (Cf. J21.22.) J21.37
• Solomon proves to his mother the inferiority of woman's wisdom. J80.1.1
• King brought to sense of duty by woman's words. Drunken king sentences unjustly. Woman asks to appear before the king before he has dined. Her case is retried. J816.3
• Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover. J1142.2
• Barber paid to change color of woman's face burns her with acid. He has fulfilled contract. J1161.6
• The woman with bad eyes. Physician called to doctor woman's eyes bandages them and then steals things each day. She refuses to pay fee and is haled to court. She says that her sight is worse than ever for whereas she used to see many things in her house she now sees very little. Theft is thus revealed. J1169.1
• Novel settlement of dispute. Judge orders woman's second husband to return her to the first in the same condition as he received her (with child). J1173.1
• Man's torn garment as proof of his innocence of rape. If he were the assaulter, the torn garment would be woman's. J1174.5
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• Old woman's sneeze mistaken for gunfire. J1809.1
• Woman's garments cut off: does not know herself. J2012.2
• Fools believe sun sleeps at certain woman's house. J2272.3
• Fool discloses woman's adultery; lover kills him. J2365
• Obedient woman's pestle remains magically suspended in air. J2411.9
• Literal obedience: soldier breaks woman's oil pot in two with sword when she asks him to show her something she never has seen in life. J2469.5.2
• Escape by putting on old woman's skin. K521.1.4
• Man and woman escape by sending the she-bear to bring the woman's "forgotten" comb. K629.1.1
• Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishes. K959.2.1
• Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. K1223.2.1
• Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. K1271.1.3
• Seduction by masking as woman's husband. K1311
• Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why – you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise. K1311.0.1
• Master in serving-man's place in woman's bed. (Cf. K1569.7.) K1317.1.1
• Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bed. K1317.3
• Devil comes to rendezvous instead of woman's lover. K1317.10
• Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise. K1321.1.3
• Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster. K1339.8
• Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal. K1341
• Entrance to woman's room in golden ram. Princess's curiosity aroused and the golden ram carried into the room. The youth is concealed inside. K1341.1
• Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest. K1342
• Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) K1342.0.1
• Entrance into woman's room in lamp stand. K1342.0.2
• Trickster gains access to woman's room disguised as peddler. (Cf. K1817.4.) K1349.1.3
• Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover. K1349.2
• Entrance into woman's room through concealed door. K1349.8
• Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman's bed: seduces her. K1349.9
• Admission to woman's room by means of cap of invisibility. K1349.10
• Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
• Seduction by begging into woman's room to get warm. (Cf. K1393.) K1361.3
• Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman's back: violates her. K1382
• Man won over by woman's obscene trick. K1386
• Trickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband. K1574.2
• Teacher instructs pupil in the art of love: cuckolded. Student, ignoring woman's identity, seduces the teacher's wife, and reports success to him. The teacher makes futile attempts to surprise wife with pupil. K1692
• Ogre terrified by woman's legs. He has formerly been caught in a vise. On his approach, the man's wife stands on her head and ogre thinks her legs are a vise. He flees. K1755
• Disguise of man in woman's dress. K1836
• Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar. K1911.4
• Barren woman pretends to bear child. Substitutes another woman's child. K1923.3
• Unsuccessful suitor pretends friendship with woman's husband. Kills him while on a hunt. K2022
• Telling a story to allay a woman's amorous desires. K2111.0.1
• False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. K2112.1
• Page is duped into hiding under woman's bed (behind curtain). K2112.2.2