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- Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick. A702.8
- Tabu: riding dirty on black-heeled horse across certain plain. C891.1
- Tabu: bearded man going dirty to bed. C891.2
- Clothes thrown into the cooking food. A trickster when told that food cooking is clothes being boiled retaliates by throwing his dirty hose into the pot. J1561.1
- Fear that frog may drown or get dirty. J1909.7
- Numskulls carry one another through mud and the others back in order that not all get dirty. J2163.1
- Fox to crocodile who has caught him by the tongue: "Those are the dirty clothes I've been washing!" She lets go. K543.1
- Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees. K553.6
- Dirty boy as hero. L112.4
- Wager with overdressed youths that servant can carry a large bucket of water upstairs. They follow and are soaked when the servant purposely spills the dirty water. X32