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- Elephants look after ascetic in jungle. B530.2
- Birds mock ascetic's devotions. B787
- Tabu: disturbing austerities of an ascetic. C94.9
- Transformation: normal man to ascetic. D96
- Magic object received from ascetic. D812.14
- Magic power through ascetic practices. D1733.3
- What religious ascetic sees as gold, ordinary people see as scorpions. D1825.8
- Field turns to gold after ascetic plows it. D2102.2.1
- Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. F771.11
- Stream becomes hot in which saint performs his ascetic devotions. F932.3
- Ascetic carries woman in his hair, but she has two lovers in her cloak and outwits him. F1034.2.1
- Devil as ascetic. G303.3.1.8.2
- Which is best, domestic or ascetic life? With good wife domestic life is best. H659.22
- Ascetic gives directions to hero on quest. H1233.3.1
- Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
- Father tells son that he has been scratched by "hairy rascals" (monkeys). Son attacks hairy ascetics. J2484
- Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics. K521.9
- The lovely ascetic (girl in man's clothes) wins love of a rich woman. K1322.1
- Disguise as ascetic. K1826.2
- False ascetic in partnership with tiger shares his prey. K2058.2