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- Why certain tree bleeds. A2766
- Why elder tree bleeds when cut. (Cf. A2721.2.1.4.) A2766.1
- Transformation: blood to milk. Bird caught and told to make milk bleeds and blood turns to milk. D457.1.2
- Stone bleeds three days before church is plundered. D1317.12.1
- Corpse bleeds when murderer touches it. D1318.5.2
- Image bleeds. D1624
- Image of Christ bleeds from thrown stone. D1624.1
- Object bleeds. F991
- Bleeding bone. Man cuts into dry bone that bleeds. F991.2
- Shrine bleeds. F991.4
- Desecrated altar bleeds. F991.4.1
- Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
- Numskull is told that he will die when his mouth bleeds. J2311.1.2
- Fowl makes another animal believe that he has had his leg cut off. Says that he has received large pay. He has his leg hidden under his wing. The elephant (hippopotamus) cuts his off and bleeds to death. (Cf. J2401.) J2413.4.1
- Lover's wound breaks while he is in bed with mistress. He bleeds to death (or is discovered because of the blood). N386