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- Creator makes man out of butter first; it would not stand up and melted. A1226.1
- Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
- Bath in boiling oil, pitch, or melted lead does not hurt a saint. D1841.2.2
- Ice melted by magic. D2144.5.2
- Magistrate finds thieving innkeepers guilty of arson. Silver buckles are not melted by the fire. J1149.9
- The Snow-Child. (Modus Leibinc.) A sailor's wife bears a son in his absence and says that it came from eating snow. Later the husband makes away with the boy who, he says, melted in the sun. J1532.1
- Simpleton thinks his reflection in jar of melted butter is thief; strikes at the jar and breaks it. J1791.7.1