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- Animal attacks by throwing pebbles. B762.1
- Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach. B784.1.2
- Transformation: quails to sticks and pebbles. D423.2
- King of birds transforms his quails into sticks and pebbles so king and his hunters and hawks cannot kill them. D666.1
- Magic pebble. D931.2
- Magic pebble prevents burning. (Cf. D931.) D1382.1
- Magic pebble provides food. (Cf. D930.) D1472.1.2.3
- Magic pebble splits wood. (Cf. D931.) D1564.1
- Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
- Crow drops pebbles into water jug so as to be able to drink. J101
- Numskull told to attract girl's attention by throwing pebble at her flings large stone which breaks her head. J2461.9
- A pebble for each sin. A man cannot remember the number of his sins. The priest has him put a pebble in a sack for each of his sins. He comes to confession with three large sacks of pebbles. J2466.1
- The reckoning of the pot. A man counts the days of the fastmonth by throwing a pebble each day into a pot. His daughter throws a handful of pebbles in. Asked the day of the month, he says that it is the 125th. J2466.2
- Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led away. R135
- Pebble put in box each time mass is heard. V46