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- Giant bird alighting on oak tree causes it to tremble. B31.6.2.1
- Hawk lighting on man points out criminal. B152.3
- Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath. C631.4
- Tabu: lighting fire at certain time. C751.1
- Tabu: lighting fire before king lights one. (Cf. C756.) C751.1.1
- Tabu: crossing graveyard without alighting. C883
- Disenchantment by lighting fire. D784
- Three on a match (lighting cigarettes or cigars). D1273.1.1.1
- Magic lamp indicates falsehood by lighting. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1316.2
- Holy water and mass prevent demons alighting on grave. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) D1385.15
- Magic power of lighting empty lamp by breathing on it used for divination. (Cf. D1311.) D1933
- Recognition of disguised princess by bee lighting on her. H162
- Special power of chaste woman: blowing out candle with one puff and relighting it with another. H413.1
- Gnats apologize for lighting on bull's horn. He had not felt their weight. J953.10
- Crow alighting on falling tree thinks his weight made it fall. J953.11
- Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt. J2101.1
- Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
- Bird lighting on the heads of group of men causes them to kill one another with blows on the head. K1082.3
- Lighting the road (or painting the house red). The house set on fire. K1412
- Insult: lighting lamp with king's moustache. P672.4