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- Man in the moon from scratches or paint. A751.5
- Why cock scratches for food. A2435.4.8.1
- Why hen scratches in ground. A2477.2
- Saint scratches surface of earth with his spear and treasures of gold and silver are revealed. D2157.1.1
- Witch scratches person. G269.15
- Clandestine lover identified by scratches left on face by lady. H58.2
- Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.) H1184
- Thief suspected of crawling through hole must take off clothes. He is full of scratches and confesses. J1141.7
- The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire. J1175.1
- Scratching contest with devil: man's wife shows scratches in her oak table. K83.1.1
- Agreement not to scratch. In talking the trickster makes gestures and scratches without detection. K263
- Tiger son of human mother scratches her and licks her blood. U128
- If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" X1133.3.2
- Lie: cat scratches out bear's tongue. X1211.1
- The fat troll (wolf). A troll eats the watcher's five horses and finally the watcher himself. The master goes to investigate. The troll: "I ate the five horses, I ate the watcher, and I will eat you." Does so. Likewise the wife, servant, daughter, son, and dog. The cat scratches the troll open and rescues all. Z33.4
- Man sharpening his dao is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the neck; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refuge in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house on an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well. Z49.6.3