• Burning plains in hell. A671.2.4.4
• Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
• Man in moon has punishment for burning brush on Sunday. A751.1.1
• Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. A2004
• Animal characteristics from burning or singeing. (Cf. A2378.8.4, A2411.1.2.5, A2411.1.3.2, A2411.1.4.1, A2411.1.6.5, A2411.2.1.1, A2411.2.1.4, A2411.2.1.9, A2411.2.1.7, A2411.2.1.11, A2411.2.5.2, A2411.2.5.1, A2411.2.1.15, A2411.2.6.8, A2411.4.2, A2411.4.3, A2411.5.3.) A2218
• Otters supply man with fish and burning wood daily. B292.7
• Animal saves man from death by burning. B526
• Tabu: burning animal husband. C36.1
• Tabu: burning saja wood (terminalia tomentosa). C514
• Tabu: harming tree in any way before burning it. C519.1
• Tabu: burning caterpillars. C841.3
• Burning as punishment for breaking tabu. C927
• Burning and drowning as punishment for breaking tabu. C927.3
• Transformation by fumigations. Burning of magic perfume transforms. (Cf. D1245.) D575
• Disenchantment by burning magic hair. D771.1
• Disenchantment made permanent by burning cast-off skin. Cf. D721.3. D793.2
• Each drop of innocent blood turns to burning candle. D1318.5.3
• Magic ointment gives immortality. Burning at night and anointment with magic ointment by day. (Cf. D1244.) D1346.8
• Burning candle stuck with pins fetches lover. D1355.3.6
• Magic object protects against cold or burning. D1382

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• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) · Chapter LXIV LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires

• ATU 1116 Attempted Burning
• ATU 1330 Extinguishing the Burning Boat
• ATU 1562A 'The Barn is Burning!' A master has instructed his farmhand (a traveler) to use peculiar names for everything, for example, Purity for the cat, Beauty for the fire, High for the roof (and punishes the farmhand when he does not)
• ATU 1562J* 'Sing It!' A pharmacist's (farmer's) servant who stutters tries to tell his master that the laboratory is burning (that he fell into a canal along with his horse and wagon)
• ATU 1698A* Burning Off the Dirt (previously To Strike Finger)