• Deity of the deserts. A419.2
• Angel of the deserts. A419.2.1
• Origin of desert. A957
• Spontaneous generation. Scientists find child on deserted island. They suggest that he has emerged from the ground. A1234.3
• Why leopard walks alone. He killed treacherously his saviors and all animals deserted him. A2433.2.3.1
• Maiden disenchanted, deserted, and refound. D795
• Pillar of fire protects in desert. (Cf. D1271.) D1380.1.1
• River appears at prayer of desert travelers. D2151.2.5.1
• Wild hunt appears at desert spot. E501.12.7
• Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. F302.2.1
• Fairy wooes and deserts man. F302.3.4.3
• Man deserts wife for fairy. F302.5.0.1
• Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man. F441.2.1.3
• Deserted city. Inhabitants have been devoured. F766
• Miracles in the desert come to an end with death of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. F900.3.1
• Cultivated places suddenly become desert. F969.5
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. G264
• Desert the abode of demons. G302.5.1
• City infested by jinns deserted. G307.4
• Objects of quest found in deserted castle where hero is served by unseen hands. H1239.2

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• Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales · 41 Sturt's Desert Pea, the Blood Flower
• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 67 LXVII. THE DESERTED CHILDREN *5
• Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · Chapter 76 LXXVI. AMONG DAUGHTERS OF THE DESERT.

• ATU 891 The Man who Deserted his Wife (previously The Man who Deserts his Wife and Sets her the Task of Bearing him a Child)