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- Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru. A759.4
- No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2.1
- First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old. A1271.4
- Giant fifteen feet tall with three feet between the eyes. F531.2.1.1
- Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
- Witch with fifteen tails. G219.8.1
- Test of resourcefulness: to discover how old, respectively, three horses are. Youth drops water on each; one jumps fifteen paces only, another twenty, and the last bounds in air and gallops. H506.11
- The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
- Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.) H1199.8
- Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight days. J2033
- Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old. J2212.1
- Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4
- Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. K1321.1.2
- Captured bird promises to deliver fifteen birds in exchange for freedom. M244.2
- Prophecy: child shall hang before fifteen years. M341.1.3.1
- Formulistic number: fifteen. Z71.16.11
- Fifteen characteristics of a good (bad) woman. Z71.16.11.1
- The fifteen Oes. Z71.16.11.2
- Fifteen signs before Doomsday. Z71.16.11.3