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- Discontented pine-tree: cause of pine needles. Pine tree given silk leaves, glass leaves, etc. Always discontented. Finally has needles again. (Cf. A2767.1.) A2723.1
- Origin of tree's needles. A2767
- Origin of pine-needles. (Cf. A2723.1.) A2767.1
- Little soldiers with officer on rabbit (long needles and knives for weapons). F535.2.8
- Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. F661.7
- Task for devil: making needles. G303.16.19.3.2
- Needles and anchors. Fox leaving merchant's warehouse: "I had wanted a needle as big as an anchor and an anchor as small as a needle." J1391.8
- Sowing needles (like seed). J1932.5
- Protected by the needle. In a storm on the ice, numskulls stick needles into the ice to keep from blowing away. J1965
- Punishment: piercing with needles. Q469.9.2
- Murder by piercing with pins and needles. S115.3
- Blinding by thrusting needles into eyes. S165.3
- Man trades an egg for a needle, demands treat of a gill of rum, the traditional reward for traders. The storekeeper gives him the rum; he asks for an egg in it. The storekeeper breaks an egg (the one he has just traded the needle for) into the rum. It has two yolks; the trader asks for two needles. W154.26.1
- Tailors cowards as warriors: go home to their needles. (Cf. W121.) X223