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- The fires of hell. A671.2.4
- Four fires in hell. A671.2.4.13
- Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts. A761.4
- Twilight reflection of fires of hell. A1179.1.1
- Tabu: neglect of sacred fires. C67
- Magic control of fires. (Cf. D1271.) D2158
- Magic extinguishing of fires. (Cf. D1656, Q492.) D2158.2
- Dead persons build fires. E578
- Smoke from funeral fires of two lovers mingles in sky. E643.1
- Ghosts gather wood for hell fires. E755.2.4
- Hell fires kindled according to sins of sinners. E755.2.4.1
- Excreta is so fiery it starts great fires. F559.3.1
- Multicolored fires. F882.2
- Fires burnt in streets to ward off witches. G272.4
- Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
- Foolish boasts get man into trouble. Man boasts to boss that his brother can do twice the work he does. The boss hires him. The two brothers tell him their father can do as much work in a day as the boys can do in a week. The boss fires them, tells them to send their father to work for him. (Cf. H915, H916, N455.4.) J2353.1
- Man hides in hollow log, fires rifle while Indians are sitting on the log, scares them away. K547.3
- Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. K2213.15
- Enemy's ships fired by use of fireship. K2364
- Avaricious woman and her gold consumed by hell's fires which burn in her grave. Q272.4