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- Tabu: picking up card fallen to ground. C525
- Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult. C543
- Magic statue of archer put into action my picking up precious object from ground. D1620.1.5.1
- Magic sleep by lousing. Picking the lice from the head of an old person or an ogre is used to put him to sleep. D1962.2
- Task: picking all nuts from tall tree. (Performed by grateful squirrel.) H1121
- Task: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubies. H1198
- Picking up water thrown on ground no harder than the undoing of slander. J84
- Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
- Picking the louse and the flea. One man rewarded with forty crowns for picking louse from king's robe. Imitator given forty lashes for picking flea. J2415.2
- Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity. T485