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- Origin of wedding ceremony. A1555.1
- Tabu: playing at marriage ceremony. C167
- Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). C167.1
- Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. C231.5
- Magic results produced by religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.5, V70.) D1766
- Other religious ceremony as magic cure. Sign of cross, prayer, etc. D2161.4.9.1
- Evil spirit exorcised by religious ceremony. (Cf. V10ff.) Holy name, sign of cross, prayer, etc. D2176.3.2
- Protection during ghost-laying ceremony. E443.0.2
- Marriage (ceremony) to a ghost. E495.2
- Exorcising fairies. Fairies disappear when some name or ceremony of the Christian Church is used. F382
- Water-spirit flees if holy name, ceremony, or blessed object is used. F420.5.3.4
- Witch's power received by altering religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.1.) G224.5
- Parody of church ceremony at witch's sabbath. G243.2
- Witch exorcised by use of religious ceremony, object, or charm. (Cf. D2176.3.2.) G271.2
- The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
- Repeating the ceremony. Fool told to repeat part of the ceremony at baptism persists absurdly in repeating every remark. J2498
- Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. K2366.1
- Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) Q557.7
- Betrothal ceremony. T61.4
- At betrothal ceremony both parties drink out of the loving-cup. T61.4.2
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