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- God drops water from his finger and the drops become angels. Lucifer imitated God and created devils. A52.0.7
- Raven attempts to imitate dove: punished with awkward gait. A2232.10
- Lizard's tail imitated from snake's. A2272.2
- Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) G242.8
- Witch causes man to strip naked and imitate a jockey riding himself. G269.21.3
- God changes an angel into the devil, because he tried to imitate God in creating the world. G303.1.1.3
- Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. G303.16.19.4.1
- Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. G524
- Crow tries to imitate partridge's walk. Only spoils his own. J512.6
- How the first man killed himself. The second fool imitates the first who leaps from a palm tree by means of a looped rope. The first kills himself. The second wants to see just how it happened and kills himself too. J2374
- Alleged return from land of dead with bags of gold persuades dupe to try to imitate. J2411.5
- Sister of goddess tries to imitate her feat of being cooked without harm and dies in the attempt. J2411.6.1
- Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
- The dog imitates a wolf. Wants to kill a horse. He asks the cat: "Is my back bristled, etc." The horse kills him with a kick. (Cf. K1121.) J2413.5
- Raven tries to imitate dove's step but breaks his bones. J2413.9
- Foolish imitation of lucky man. Because one man has had good luck a numskull imitates and thinks he will have equal luck. He is disappointed. J2415
- Crab tries to imitate bird who lays egg in pot of boiling water. Falls in instead of being rewarded. J2415.3
- Fairies help forgotten child, but strangle child trying to imitate good luck. J2415.4
- Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
- Pig sees goat return decked with ornaments and plenty of food; goes out and imitates trick played by goat but is beaten instead. J2415.6