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- Origin of charcoal making. A1452
- Transformation: handkerchief with three knots to clod, potsherd, and charcoal. D454.3.2.1
- Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. D1865.2.1
- One sack of charcoal makes a hundred. D2106.2
- The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
- Expensive wood burned to make charcoal. J2094
- "Have a black look" (i.e., frown). Fool blackens face with charcoal. J2489.7
- Treacherous charcoal-burner. K2262
- Raised treasure turns into charcoal (shavings). If one takes it along it will turn back into gold. N558
- My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal-burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc. Z41.4.2