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- Cat sucks sleeping child's breath. B766.2
- Crying induced by magic as trick to force child's mother. D2034
- Evil eye averted by swinging cat over child's cradle. D2071.1.2
- Witch burns her child's legs for wood, then covers child with sheet and child is whole. D2161.3.3.1
- Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.) E324
- Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. F312
- Storm signs betray newly born child's chiefly rank. F960.1.1.3
- Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.2
- Witch sucks blood from woman's or child's breasts. G262.1.2
- Person removes string with thirteen knots from child's mouth. G271.10
- Test of child's innocence: onyx stone and coal of fire offered. (Cf. H501.) H256.1
- Mother test: milk goes long distance into child's mouth. H495.2
- Wisdom of child decides lawsuit. King in disguise sees child's game which represents the case. J123
- Adulteress betrayed by little child's remark. J125.2
- Barber operating on child's skin kills it: blames mother for child's thin skin. J1166.1
- Child's stomach split open to cure him of wandering. J1842.4
- Foolish mother does not understand how babies cry. Wrings the child's neck. J1911.2
- Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
- Fool believes gold in bag turns to ashes because of child's urinating on it. Actually bag contained only ashes. J2325.1
- Literal numskull laughs at his child's death. J2461.3