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- Alternate heat and cold in hell. A671.3.3
- Hero makes sun and moon from tree and sends them alternately into sky. A717
- Sun and his brother rise and set alternately. A736.3.3
- Treasure-hog. Alternate bristles of gold and silver; at each step a side of pork falls from him. B101.2
- Immortality exchanged for death on alternate days. D1853.1
- Judas Iscariot appears in midst of sea on rock washed alternately by fiery and icy waves. (Cf. Q560.2.3.) E489.7
- Dividing the eggs: one man's hand in the pot at a time. Trickster alternates hands so fast that the other man never gets to put his hand in. He finally puts his foot in the pan. J1241.5
- Dog alternately bites and caresses hares. Is he friend or enemy? K2031
- Choice of weapons alternates each succeeding day. P557.4.3
- Pain of souls tormented in hell alternately ebbs and flows. Q562
- Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and cold. Q562.1
- Souls in hell alternately drowned and burned. Q562.2
- Souls tormented in hell alternately borne up to firmament and cast down to depths. Q562.3
- Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public. T72.4
- Beautiful girl seated on large lotus flower holding big elephant in each hand which she devours and throws off alternately. X943.1
- The crow on the tarred bridge. His beak and tail alternately stick. (Endless.) (Cf. Z11.) Z39.3