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Motifs — first 20 of 22
- Man controls rising and setting of sun. A725
- Four rivers, rising in paradise, water primitive world. A871.2
- Flood caused by rising of river. A1011.2
- Clouds as smoke rising to sky. A1133.3
- Magic faggot drips to indicate rising tide. (Cf. D957.) D1324.2
- Ring prevents person from rising from chair. (Cf. D1076.) D1413.2
- Rising smoke as omen. D1812.5.0.4
- Divination from rising smoke. D1812.5.0.4.1
- People swim in imaginary rising river. D2031.1.2
- Dwarfs magically keep ghosts from rising. E439.2
- Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world. F791
- Diagnosis based on smoke rising from house of sick. F956.3
- King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. (Beans which keep rising and falling in water.) H583.6
- Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
- Relationship riddles arising from unusual marriages of relatives. H795
- Recognition of good health by smoke rising from chimney. H1582.2
- Listening to the debate. A lazy youth explains his late rising by saying that he lay abed to hear the argument between industry and laziness. J1486
- The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
- Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
- Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. K1691.2