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- Pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar set up by Hercules. (Cf. A901.) A984
- Tabu: using altar for secular purposes. C51.1.1
- Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.) C51.1.2
- Tabu: allowing a drop to fall upon altar. C51.1.8
- Tabu: altar smoke from sacrifice touching young chief. C564.5
- Transformation: man to altar. D261
- Magic altar. D1166
- Shirt laid upon altar raises storm. (Cf. D1056.) D1541.1.4
- Magic weeping altar. (Cf. D1166.) D1618.3
- Fire turns aside and refuses to catch hold of holy garments, wooden altars and similar sacred things. D2158.1.3.2
- Altar in otherworld. F166.5
- Jinns frequent graveyards, ruined houses, or an altar of sacrifice. F499.3.3
- Altar cloths descend from heaven. F962.12.2
- Mysterious leaf falls on church altar. F962.12.5
- Desecrated altar bleeds. F991.4.1
- Altar shakes when unworthy man is elected. (Cf. D1169.) F1009.3
- Altar floats in air. F1083.0.1.1
- Satan entangles ram's horns on the altar. G303.9.9.20
- Ordeal: names of suspected persons are placed in chalice on altar: the one to whom the lot falls is guilty. H233.1
- What are best and worst stones? Best: altar, whetstone, millstone; worst: hailstone, stone in the eye, gallstone. H659.3.1