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- Snake cracks self like coach whip and chases man. B765.10
- Ghost of witch in her coffin chases man. E261.4.1
- Ghost chases pedestrian on road. E272.4
- Wild hunt chases in air. E501.14.1
- Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. G303.8.12
- Person chases the devil away. Devil says, "You also have stolen once." G303.16.11.3
- Priest chases devil away. G303.16.14.1
- The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
- Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
- The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse. J1908.1
- Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
- Fool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is open. J2176
- Paramour unties mare. Husband chases mare while the wife entertains the paramour. K1514.14
- Trained rat upsets pieces in gambling game: trained (or transformed) cat chases it away. N7
- Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse. N339.1
- Drop of honey causes chain of accidents. Hunter drops honey in a grocery; weasel eats honey; cat chases weasel; dog chases cat; grocer kills dog: all the cause of a bloody feud between villages. N381
- Devil chases ghost of wicked man until he puts his head into chapel window. (Cf. E754.) R325.1
- Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December). X1133.2
- Man invites animals to come and work in his field. Rooster kills beetle; cat kills rooster; dog kills cat; leopard kills dog; hyena kills leopard; buffalo kills hyena; elephant kills buffalo, and lion chases elephant so that both fall into trap. Man calls wives to see meat he has killed. Z43.6
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