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- Why carpenters are found everywhere: flood scatters them on raft over world. A1445.2.1
- Fly steals fire from spider: may eat everywhere. Spider brings fire from hell. Fly steals it from him on the way. (Cf. A2545.1.) A2229.4
- Why certain animals are found everywhere. A2434.1
- Why birds are everywhere. A2434.1.1
- Why bluebirds are everywhere. A2434.1.2
- Why snowbirds are everywhere. A2434.1.3
- Why black ants are everywhere. A2434.1.4
- Why jackal may go everywhere. A2434.1.5
- Why beans bear everywhere. A2793.1.1
- Dragon as power of evil. So considered everywhere except in the East, where are also found beneficent dragons. B11.9
- Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
- Charm gives invisibility and power of moving everywhere. (Cf. D1273.) D1561.2.4
- Local winter. Winter produced in one place while it is summer everywhere else. D2145.1.1
- Wind serves Solomon as horse and carries him everywhere. F963.1
- Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) H588.7
- God in the puddle. A Jew objects to the doctrine that God could exist in the Virgin Mary. A disputant asks if he believes God is everywhere; then if God is in a mud puddle. The Jew agrees. The disputant condemns the Jew for believing that God could exist in a puddle and not in a pure virgin. J1262.2
- The ladder market. A thief climbs over a wall by means of his ladder. When caught in the garden he says that he is a seller of ladders. Owner: "Is this a ladder market?" "Can't one sell ladders everywhere?" J1391.2
- Henpecked husband leaves home. Hears a rooster crow, saying: "Cocky kuko! It's the same everywhere!" He returns home. J1811.4.1
- Where the ducks ford. A fool is asked where the river is fordable. He says, "Everywhere." The man tries to ride across and is almost drowned. The fool, "Those little ducks were able to cross here; why couldn't a big fellow like you?" J1919.2
- "God is everywhere." Fool therefore trusts that he is in angry elephant. J2499.5