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- Old man from sky as creator. – Old man with his wife comes from the sky. Are the first couple on earth. Have seven sons and seven daughters. Each son marries a daughter. A21.2
- God with seven heads. A123.4.1.2
- God represented as among seven sheaths of fire. A137.17
- The seven grain sisters. A433.2
- Seven demigods. A501.1
- Culture hero has seven pupils in each eye, seven toes on each foot, seven fingers on each hand. A526.5
- Seven heavens. A series of seven upper worlds. A651.1.4
- Seventeen-storied heaven. A651.1.8.1
- Seven lower worlds. A651.2.3
- Seven worlds above and below. An angel upholds the seven worlds on his shoulders. Under him in turn are: rock, bull, fish, vast sea, air, fire, and serpent. A651.3.1
- Windows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmament. A661.0.6
- Heaven surrounded by seven walls. A661.0.9
- Formerly seven suns. A720.1
- Formerly seven moons. A759.5
- Pleiades seven illegitimate children. A773.4
- Seven seas encircle the world. A872.1
- Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
- Flood: refuge in huge gourds with seven rooms in each. A1029.4
- End of world when four (seven) suns appear in sky. A1052.3
- Seven days silence in whole universe at the end of the world. A1057
Episodes
- Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales · 10 Meamei the Seven Sisters
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 5 5.— THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 25 25.— THE SEVENF EAYENS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 119 119.— THE SEVEN SWABIANS.
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 78 LXXVIII. THE SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON 729
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Seventeenth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Twenty-Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Thirty-Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Forty-Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Fifty-Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Sixty-Seventh Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Seventieth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Seventy-First Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Seventy-Second Dictum
- Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena · Chapter XII: The Seven Zones and their Characteristics
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · Chapter 60 LX. THE SEVEN SEALS.
Tale types
- ATU 1295 The Seventh Cake Satisfies
- ATU 1346A* 'Guess how Many Eggs I Have and you shall Get all Seven!' A fool (farmer) says to his companion, 'If you can tell me how many eggs I have in my bag (young pigs my sow brought forth) you will get all seven (four, ten)
- ATU 1352A The Tale-Telling Parrot (previously Seventy Tales of a Parrot Prevent a Wife's Adultery)
- ATU 1425B* Why the Seventh Child Has Red Hair
- ATU 303A Brothers Seek Sisters as Wives (previously Six Brothers Seek Seven Sisters as Wives)
- ATU 766 The Seven Sleepers
- ATU 875D* The Prince's Seven Wise Teachers