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- God plants fields. A432.0.1
- God of rice-fields. A433.1.1
- Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) A2238.1
- Why wild pigs ravage rice-fields. A2545.5
- Frog works in fields for benefactor. B292.9.1
- Ghostly wool-packs roll over fields, down hill. E539.3
- Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing. F329.3
- Giant's fields fertile; others arid. G112
- "Always wear new shoes." (Walk the fields bare-footed, wearing your shoes only when nearing the town.) H588.13
- Man desirous of traveling sent six miles to deliver a letter. Told that he has now seen the world, for he will never see more than valleys, hills, fields, meadows, water, streets, cities, and villages. J1076.1
- Confession made easy. Peasant sees priest at work in the fields. Tells him he wishes to confess. He is told to put money in the box and take the same penance as the year before. J1263.7
- Fool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields. J2129.8
- Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
- Men lured to their death when their fields are set on fire. K812.2
- "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding. K1917.7
- Fire tied to foxes' tails: destroys enemy's cities and fields. K2351.1.1
- Queen made to scare crows away in fields. Q482.5
- Lie: weather so hot that corn pops in fields, animals freeze to death thinking it has snowed. X1633.1
- Wages: successive harvests from one grain of rice. Master has no fields left. Z21.1.1
- Where have you been, goose? – In the fields. – What have you in your beak? – A knife. – etc. (Tile, water, ox, firewood, old woman, friars, mass, shirt.) Z39.4