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- Why bee's sting is no longer fatal to man. A2346.2
- Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal. A2378.2.1
- Basilisk's fatal glance. Renders powerless or kills. B12.2
- Animal warns of fatal danger. B521
- Direct communication with god fatal to all except special devotees. C52.1
- Man (woman) persuaded to reveal fatal secret. C420.1
- Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) C518.1
- Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
- Arrows rubbed with black chicken fatal. D1402.7.5.1
- The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
- Fatal kiss from dead. E217
- Fairy's kiss fatal. F302.3.4.1.1
- Sight of fairies fatal. F363.3
- Sunlight fatal to fairies. F383.4.3
- Evil spirit's kiss fatal. F402.1.11.4
- Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. F420.4.7
- Sexual relations with wood-spirit fatal. F441.6.3
- Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. F582
- Fatal enticements of phantom women. F585.1
- Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal. F693
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