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- Planet Mars lies on moon to impart warmth to her lest she freeze the earth. (Cf. A780). A759.7
- Water freezes and forms mountains. A969.5
- Man with power to make everything freeze. Wears cap over ear. Should he wear it straight everything would freeze. D2144.1.2
- Saint causes a river to freeze over in summer. D2151.2.4
- River between the realms of giants and gods never freezes. F141.1.3
- River which never freezes. F715.5
- Fire from heaven burns and freezes. F962.2.4
- Cold test. Attempt to freeze hero to death. H1512
- Cold hands and feet for the dead man. His wife has told him that one tells a dead person by his cold hands and feet. He freezes his feet and hands and lies down for dead. Wolves eat his ass. "Lucky for you that his master is dead!" J2311.7
- Beaver and porcupine trick each other. Beaver carries porcupine and abandons him in the center of a lake. Porcupine causes the lake to freeze and escapes. He then carries beaver and abandons him in the top of a tree. K896.1
- The rabbit-catch: rabbits freeze feet fast to ice at night. X1115.1
- Water of stream or lake freezes just as frogs jump into lake. The frogs are caught in the ice. X1130.3
- Man freezes to saddle. Must be thawed out by the stove. X1606.2.1
- Lie: shadow freezes. X1623.1
- Lie: words freeze. X1623.2
- Lie: flame freezes: startling results. X1623.3
- Lie: weather so hot that corn pops in fields, animals freeze to death thinking it has snowed. X1633.1
- Man crawls into body of animal (after killing it) to escape cold. The animal freezes back together; man must eat his way out. X1723.3.1