• Why trees do not talk. All ask to be spared when man begins cutting them. A2791.1
• Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended. C43.2
• Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.) C51.2.2
• Tabu: cutting down tree wherein resides deity. C93.6
• Tabu: cutting branches of tree. C513.1
• Tabu: cutting down tree. C518
• Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) C518.1
• Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
• Tabu: cutting hair. C722
• Tabu: cutting hair during certain time. C722.1
• Disenchantment by cutting person in two. D711.2
• Disenchantment from bird by cutting off bill. D711.3
• Disenchantment by cutting off and reversing bodily members. (Cf. D711.1.) D712.1
• Disenchantment by cutting off animal's limb. D712.1.1
• Disenchantment by cutting in two. D712.1.2
• Self-cutting shears. (Cf. D1183.) D1601.12
• Fortune told by cutting sand. D1812.3.2
• Waking from magic sleep by cutting off finger. D1978.1
• Cat in wood-pile prevents axe from cutting. D2186
• Resuscitation by cutting off heads of birds which contained the soul of dead person. E29.5

all 80 in the index →

• ATU 1001 Cutting Wood
• ATU 1240 Cutting off the Branch (previously Man Sitting on Branch of Tree Cuts it off)
• ATU 1365B Cutting with the Knife or the Scissors
• ATU 1452 Thrifty Cutting of Cheese