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- Moon's phases as punishment for moon's misdoing. A755.6
- Magpie tells man he is to die next day: no tongue and long tail. God pulls out his tongue and makes his tail long for doing this forbidden thing. (Cf. A2344.2.6, A2378.3.1.) A2236.4
- Tabu: doing deed of mercy or courtesy. C740
- Tabu: doing thing at certain time. C751
- Tabu: doing thing at sunrise. C751.7
- Tabu: doing thing after certain time. C752
- Tabu: doing thing after sunset (nightfall). C752.1
- Tabu: doing certain thing after sunrise. C752.2
- Tabu: doing thing during certain time. C755
- Tabu: doing thing before certain time. C756
- Tabu: doing thing too soon. C757
- Tabu: doing thing too hastily. C758
- Tabu: doing thing too long. C761
- Tabu: doing thing too often. C762
- Tabu: doing thing in certain manner. (Cf. C643, D1791.) C854
- Disenchantment by reversing (undoing) enchantment. D765
- Magic repetition. Person must keep on doing or saying thing until released. D2172.1
- Devils appear to knight to try to call him from doing penance. G303.9.4.5
- Great head as ogre. Head detached from body pursues or flies about doing damage. G361.2
- King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.) H583.2