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- The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like. A1101
- Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
- Palisade of bronze around otherworld. F148.4
- Pillars of bronze in otherworld. F169.1.1
- Fairy boat of bronze. (Cf. F841.1.2.) F242.2.2
- Fairy harper in tiny bronze boat. F262.3.1.3
- Man of bronze. (Talos). Has single vein from neck to ankle and bronze nail at end of vein. This is the only vulnerable spot. F521.3.1
- Bronze boat. F841.1.2
- Bronze sail. F841.2.5
- Race won by deception: chariot disabled. A rival in a chariot race inserts linchpins of wax instead of those of bronze in the hero's chariot. The latter is dragged to death. K11.4