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- Why small ants live in houses while driver ants must live in bush. A2433.2.1.1
- Infuriated horses kill driver. B17.1.4.1
- The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) E332.3.3.1
- Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one. E512
- Strong man throws carriage with horses and driver on top of haystack and breaks the driver's ribs. F624.3.1
- Ass turns on his driver who would save him from falling over the precipice. J683.1
- Dante beats a mule driver who chants the Divine Comedy. J981.1
- Gods help those who help themselves. Ox driver must put his shoulder to the wheel before Hercules will help him. J1034
- Suit about the ass's shadow. Man hires ass and driver for trip across plain. In the heat the traveler sits down in the ass's shadow. The driver pushes him away. Plea: he didn't hire the ass's shadow. J1169.7
- Sham-dead man punished. A numskull lies in an old grave to see the Day of Judgment. He hears bells and thinks that the Last Day has come. He is beaten by mule-drivers when he tells them that he is a dead man. He returns home and tells his wife that he returns from the dead. "How goes it in heaven?" "For one thing, avoid mule-drivers." J2311.6
- Theft of horses (cattle) by letting loose a rabbit so that drivers join in the chase. K341.5.1
- The wager that sheep are hogs. A trickster wagers with a sheep driver that the sheep he is driving are hogs. The next man to overtake them will act as umpire. The trickster's confederate now arrives and declares that they are hogs. K451.2
- The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
- Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Q558.7