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- Animal characteristics: punishment for carrying devil into paradise. A2236.2
- Crocodile is punished for trying to attack man he is carrying: has only half tongue. A2239.7
- Animal characteristics from contest in carrying. A2251
- Animal's occupation: carrying. A2451
- Animal languages learned from carrying churchyard mould in hat. B217.4
- Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image. C56
- Tabu: defecating while carrying image of a god. C56.1
- Tabu: stopping enroute while carrying image of a god. C56.2
- Tabu: carrying corpse of woman who died in childbirth. C153.1
- Tabu: not to lay down basket carrying bride on wedding journey. C169.1
- Tabu: carrying food at night. C751.8
- Tabu: carrying child on one's back into house. C875
- Disenchantment of girl by carrying her on back. D732.1
- Carrying saint's book around army right-handwise insures victory. (Cf. D1266.) D1381.25
- Trial by ordeal subverted by carrying magic object. D1394.1
- Evil omen: scavenger carrying headload of wood. D1812.5.1.29
- Magic carrying power of voice. D1921
- Man made to appear to pursuers as woman carrying babe. D2031.6.1
- Saint's prayer brings large flight of birds carrying stones in talons. These missiles dropped upon enemies cause terror. D2163.5.1
- Resuscitation by carrying corpse to its home. E138
Tale types
- ATU 1052 Carrying a Tree (previously Deceptive Contest in Carrying a Tree)
- ATU 1082 Carrying the Horse
- ATU 1139 Carrying a Sham-Dead Person (previously The Ogre Carries the Sham-Dead Man)
- ATU 1201 Carrying the Horse (previously The Plowing)
- ATU 1242A Relief for the Donkey (previously Carrying Part of the Load)
- ATU 1579 Carrying Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage across Stream
- ATU 179B* An Old Man Carrying a Kneading Trough
- ATU 4 Sick Animal Carries the Healthy One (previously Carrying the Sham-Sick Trickster)