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- God of fishing. A455
- Assignment of crafts and professions: creator opens shop and from it distributes plough, pen, bottle, pair of scales, fishing-net and loom to various groups. A1440.1
- Origin of fishing. A1457
- Origin of the net for fishing. A1457.3
- Origin of fishing stations. A1457.4
- Origin of hunting and fishing customs. A1520
- Tabu: men fishing at certain place. C182.1
- Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. C833.9
- Luck in hunting (fishing) lost for breaking tabu. C933
- Luck in fishing lost for breaking tabu. C933.2
- Giant's hunting (fishing). F531.3.12
- Fishing under sea. F931.6
- Extraordinary occurrences concerning fishing. F986
- Devil gives luck with fishing and hunting. G303.10.7
- Suitor test: skill in fishing. H326.4
- Man leaves farming for fishing. When water dries up he goes hungry. J345.2
- Cheater discovered by fishing in the street. Man arouses the curiosity of the rascal who has swindled his wife. J1149.2
- Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt. A man ties his mare to a second man's wagon. The mare bears a colt which the wagon-owner claims, saying that the wagon has borne a colt. Real owner of the colt shows the absurdity (1) by fishing in the street or (2) by telling that his wife is shooting fish in the garden. Neither of these things are so absurd as the decision. J1191.1
- Swimming (fishing) in the flax-field. Peasants go to visit the sea. They see a waving flax-field, and, thinking it is the sea, jump in to swim. J1821
- Fishing-rod alleged to take fish to fisherman's home. K119.1.1