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- Swans harnessed to chariot. B558.2
- Witch harnesses man and leads him to dance. G269.3
- Ogres harnessed to plow. G675
- Man trades his only horse for a set of harness. J2085.1.1
- The tailless and earless ass. Just lain down to sleep, a man is awakened by a neighbor announcing that his she-ass has borne a young one without ears or tail. The man lies awake all night wondering how the ass will keep the harness on. J2373
- Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. K1411
- Boys threaten to harness tiger. They have jumped on him from behind and he cannot see. He buys them off. K1714
- The wolf harnessed. Eats the horses, is harnessed and runs in the harness. X1216.1
- Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1