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- Will-o'-the-wisp is girl cursed by her mother for gathering plants for dyestuffs on Sunday. Will-o'-the-wisp is seen where girl disappeared. A2817.2
- Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
- Self-growing and self-gathering corn. (Cf. D965.8.) D1601.2
- Girl gathering flowers swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. F92.2.1
- Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood. F171.6.5
- Task: gathering a necklace of rubies from the sea. H1023.21
- Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another. H1091.3
- Task: gathering all stones from brook or field. H1124
- Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
- Task: gathering bed-tick full of harp strings. H1129.7
- Task: gathering vessel full of nail-scrapings. H1129.8
- Task: gathering crow's house full of wren's eggs. H1129.9
- Task: gathering fist-full of fleas. H1129.10
- Task: gathering wind in fists. H1136.2
- Lovers meet at social gathering. T34