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- Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
- Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living. E361.1
- Fairies as souls of departed. (Cf. E700.) F251.2
- Castle shall stand when everything else has departed (Gimle and Brimir). F771.10
- Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." J1478
- The Lord has departed. Maidservant on way to church on Palm Sunday meets priests leading ass on which Jesus rode. The maid runs home and tells her mistress that the Lord has mounted and has just gone away. J1823.1.3
- Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. K1825.1.4
- Gray hair the symbol of departed usefulness. Z155