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- Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
- Tabu: screaming at terrible sight. C491.1
- Transformation: water to butter and cream. D478.11
- Number of screams from stone indicates number of kings to descend from man standing upon it. D1311.16.1
- Ghost cries and screams. E402.1.1.3
- Fairies ride cream-colored horses. F241.1.1.4
- Sea of cream. F711.2.2
- Witches scream. G249.2
- Breaking spell on cream by holding churn handle hard against bottom of churn. This paralyzes the witch. (Cf. D2084.2.) G271.4.11
- Salt put into churn before churning to protect cream from witch. (Cf. D2084.2.) G272.16.1
- Stone screams under feet of legitimate king. H71.10.6
- The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquitted. J1174.3
- Bridegroom gets into bed. The numskull groom on his wedding night does not know how to get to the bed, the curtains being drawn. He scales one of the posts, clambers to the canopy, falls upon his bride below, who screams for help. J1744.1.1
- The attack on the hare (crayfish). Seven men make strenuous plans for the attack on the fierce animal. One screams with fright and the animal runs away. (Cf. J1736.1.) J2612
- The thief in the beehive. Other thieves come to steal the bees, take the heaviest hive to the forest and make a fire under it. They flee when they hear a man screaming in the beehive. K335.1.6.3
- Clever woman being robbed makes excuse for screaming and summoning help. K432.1
- Monk yells "thief" to repel temptress. When she seeks him in his bed he screams. He says she steals his most valuable possession, virtue. T331.9
- Cow gives so much cream that several men do nothing but skim cream. X1235.2.1