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- Catfish transformed from children still carry marks of children's knife holder. A2261.3.1
- Transformation: blade of grass to knife. D451.5.2
- Transformation: leaf to knife. D451.8.2
- Magic knife. D1083
- Magic carving knife. (Cf. D1083.) Magic knife (weapon). D1173
- Magic two-edged knife indicates direction. Points in proper direction; bends downward to indicate wrong direction. (Cf. D1083.) D1313.8
- Knife sings as warning of fraud. (Cf. D1083.) D1317.17
- Magic knife conquers enemy. (Cf. D1083.) D1400.1.4.3
- Magic knife stuck in tree causes wine to flow. (Cf. D1173.) D1472.2.11
- Magic carving knife serves twenty-four men at meat simultaneously. (Cf. D1173.) D1583
- Sign of the cross made over sword (knife) endows it with magic powers. D1766.6.2
- Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife. D2061.2.9
- Magic journey by throwing knife into whirlwind. D2121.8
- Sight of wild hunt causes one to stick axe or knife in foot. E501.18.9
- Life token: scissors (razor, knife) drip blood. E761.1.7.2
- Life token: knife stuck in tree rusts (becomes bloody). E761.4.1
- Fairies give haymakers dinner each year until one of men keeps a fairy knife. They give no more food even though the man returns the knife. (Cf. F353.) F343.17
- Fairy gifts stop when man steals fairy knife. F361.2.4
- Spirits driven off by knife-thrusts and pistol shots. F405.2
- Power of Will-o'-the-Wisp over person neutralized if person sticks his knife into the ground. F491.3.2