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- Dying culture hero. The culture hero teaches people how to die by dying himself. A565
- Steadying the earth. A857
- Why dogs howl when man is dying. A2427.2.1
- Fox as divider of dying man's gifts. B294.1
- Cock hears inaudible voice of dying man. B733.2.1
- Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.) B766.1.1
- Tabu: studying occult books. C825
- Magic sword thrown into lake by dying hero. D878.2
- Magic power of dying man's words. D1715
- Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
- Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
- Dying man's power of prophecy. D1812.2.4
- Death evaded. Person enters on the next life without dying. D1856
- "The Two Sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven": Elijah and Enoch pass to otherworld without dying. D1856.1.1
- Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!" E489.3
- Dead friends come for dying man's soul. E722.2.9
- Wraith of dying woman goes to see children for last time before death. E723.4.4
- Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls. E741.1.1
- Translation to otherworld without dying. (Cf. F12.3.) F2
- Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) F11.2