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- Contours of land caused by occult hero driving harrow. A951.3
- Tabu: driving horses over ashen yoke. C833.4
- Disenchantment by driving stake through body. D712.10
- Saint purifies spring by driving out demon. D2176.3.3.2
- Sounds of driving cattle: horse's hoofs, whip-popping, calling to cattle, rattle of spurs: ghost of slain cowboy. E337.1.4
- Spirit overcome by driving stake through body it inhabits. F405.9
- The ass beheaded. King vows to sacrifice first thing he meets. It is a miller driving an ass. Miller pleads that the ass preceded him. They behead the ass. J1169.4
- 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 sham physician and the devil in partnership. The devil is to enter the girl and the physician will collect reward for driving the devil out. K1955.6
- Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.) Q285.4
- Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. Q473.5.1
- Murder by driving red-hot iron spits through soles of feet and into shins. S112.2.2
- Murder by driving nail through head. S115.2.1
- Driving insane by keeping awake. S191
- Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. The child has been unwittingly promised (the first thing that goes over the bridge). S241.1
- Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1