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- Scratching cats in hell. A671.2.13
- Death comes into the world by treachery of the gods: stick used by man for scratching his back is changed into cobra. A1335.14
- Transformation by scratching. D565.10
- Magic scratching (itching). D2063.4
- Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
- Strong hero asks that chickens stop scratching. When his master throws millstone on him he complains that chickens are scratching dirt on him. F615.3.1.1
- Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.) H1184
- Deceptive scratching contest. K83
- Scratching contest: man's wife shows wounds. The man sends his wife to meet the ogre with whom he is to have a scratching contest. She tells the ogre that her husband has gone to have his nails sharpened. She shows him deep wounds that her husband has scratched on her body (obscene). The ogre leaves in terror. K83.1
- Scratching contest with devil: man's wife shows scratches in her oak table. K83.1.1
- Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides. K83.2
- Lucky shot with arrow – foot and ear of deer. Deer is scratching ear. N621
- Torturing by scratching. S187
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