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Motifs
- Water freezes and forms mountains. A969.5
- 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 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
- 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: flame freezes: startling results. X1623.3
- 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
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