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- Eternal god. A102.6
- First men created with eternal life become gods. A117.1
- Lizard loses lawsuit: must bob his head. Lizard and ant accused of theft of king's crow. Ant pours boiling water down lizard's throat. When case is tried, lizard cannot talk but only bobs head up and down. Adjudged guilty and condemned to bob his head eternally. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2255.2
- Eternal bats. B19.9
- Root of eternal youth. D1338.2.2
- Immortality useless without eternal youth. D1850.1
- Eternal youth. (Cf. F167.9, F172.) D1883
- The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor. E511
- Riddle: what are the two fixed, the two moving, the two joined, the two separated by jealousy, the two eternal enemies? (Heaven and earth; sun and moon; night and day; soul and body; life and death.) H851
- As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
- Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. K1093
- Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) M365
- Curse: eternal life without eternal youth. M416.2
- Eternal ferryman. Always transports passengers and when the ruler is in danger takes his place. (Cf. Q25.) P413.1