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- Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. D1749.1
- Tree seizes person and lifts him up. F979.4
- "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked. J2489.9
- Theft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eye. K333.2
- The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." K434.1
- Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. K815.16
- Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. K815.18
- Robber attempting to steal cow at night seizes thieving tiger. Great fight in stable. N392
- Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) Q557.7
- Ogre seizes girl and puts her in a drum. R49.3
- Rich man (king) seizes poor widow's (nun's) cow. U35
- King seizes old woman's cow. U35.1
- King seizes poor man's lamb. U35.1.1
- Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1