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- Mountains from breaking of God's sieve. He is sifting stones and the bottom of the sieve breaks, letting huge stones and mountains fall through. (Cf. A971.) A963.2
- Tabu: letting ball fall into water. C41.2
- Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. C756.2
- Gate or wall opens and closes, letting saint through. (Cf. D1554.) D1552.6
- Waking from magic sleep by letting tear fall on sleeper. D1978.2
- Money received from ghosts as reward for bravery. A voice says: "I am letting it fall." The man: "Let it." Money falls to the ground. E373.1
- Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by letting them cut his hair and shave him. F331.2
- Suitor test: eating a pomegranate without letting a single seed fall. H326.2
- Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
- Plank test. Attempt to kill hero by letting plank fall on him. H1534
- Man and king compete by letting their domestic animals fight. H1588.2
- Hare upbraided by sparrow for letting self be carried off by eagle rejoices when sparrow is carried off by hawk. J885.1
- King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
- Letting in the light. Backwoods preacher tells couple that they are living in darkness. The woman responds that she has been trying for years to get her husband to cut a window in the house. J1738.6
- God blamed for letting pumpkin vines produce larger fruit than nut trees. J2215.6
- Man thinks he has given birth to a child by letting wind. J2321.2
- Theft of horses (cattle) by letting loose a rabbit so that drivers join in the chase. K341.5.1
- Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) K815.14
- Hare flatters other animals into letting it bite off their ears. K1018
- Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees. K1215