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- Man in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moon. A751.4
- Two children in moon with yoke and bucket. A751.7
- Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes. A920.1.1
- Magic bucket. D1171.10
- Pursuit by magic buckets. (Cf. D1171.10.) D1431.4
- Giant killed by his own bucket of death water; captive princess tells him to wash. G527
- Ordeal: taking stone out of bucket. Color indicates guilt or innocence. H233
- From wooden spring iron bucket makes stones from which water flows. (Metal stick picks stone from eye. If you rub lids with it, tears come.) H765
- Task: fetching water from the well in a bucket without the use of rope to draw it with. H1023.20
- Absent-minded nurse lets child down into well instead of bucket. J2175.3
- Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other. K651
- Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. K1741.3
- Bucket dropped into well leads to adventures. N777.2
- Wager with overdressed youths that servant can carry a large bucket of water upstairs. They follow and are soaked when the servant purposely spills the dirty water. X32