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- Why mouse is crushed whenever she crosses a road: elephant's curse. A2239.9
- Crosses on certain trees. (Cf. A2721.2.1.) A2751.3.2
- Hero crosses impassable plain in path of magic object. D1562.5
- Person crosses water in chariot. D2125.3
- Ghost rides on bus, disappears before it crosses bridge. E581.4.1
- On return to body soul crosses on scythe-blade as bridge. E721.6
- Hero drowned by water-spirits, who draw him down as he crosses ice. F420.5.2.1.3
- Giant ogre never crosses water. G131
- The priest makes the omen come true. A woman crosses herself when she meets a priest, as if he were the devil. She says that meeting a priest always brings her bad luck. The priest knocks her down and steps on her. "As ye believe, so shall it be." J1624
- Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1
- Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
- The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation. T315.2.1
- Blind man crosses a narrow bridge which his guide is afraid to attempt. U171
- 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