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- Why the sea is salt: magic salt mill. Stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and mill keeps grinding salt. A1115.2
- Magic grinding-stone. D1262
- Self-grinding millstone. (Cf. D1262.) D1601.20
- Self-grinding mill. Grinds whatever owner wishes. (Cf. D1263, D1470.) D1601.21
- Self-grinding salt-mill. (Cf. D1263.) D1601.21.1
- Numskull as thief: tries to carry off grinding-stone when told by confederates to bring out heavy things. Told to bring shiny things; brings out looking glass. J2461.1.7.1
- Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to grinding corn. K521.4.1.3
- Grinding stones carried by men seeking refuge in tree-top fall, killing their enemies below. N696.2
- Punishment: grinding up in a mill. Q469.3
- Earth swallows mill in which saint's grain was refused grinding. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.2.3.2.1
- Murder by grinding in mill. S116.1
- Woman gives birth to grinding-stone. T569.2