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- Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. C735.2.9
- Tabu: sitting on certain sepulchral mounds in autumn. C755.5
- Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
- Wagon refuses to move because ghost is sitting in it. (Cf. D1113, D1654.5.) D1317.10
- Silver cock, sitting on a flower, crows. D1620.2.2.1
- Magic power by sitting in certain seat. D1733.4
- Future learned by sitting on hide. D1812.3.1
- People without anuses make them by sitting on pegs. F529.2.1
- Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear. F535.1.1.1
- Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. F1011.2
- Witch killed as whale. She herself is sitting at home. G252.1
- God finds the devil sitting under a tree which was made by his throwing his staff into the water. G303.1.2.1
- Devil prevents moving of little stone by sitting on it. G303.9.9.1
- Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) H331.17
- Task: sitting on eggs without breaking them; hero perceives trick. H962.1
- Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) H1053.2
- Test: sitting up with corpse. Wake. H1461
- Test of championship: sitting on pillow covering egg without breaking egg. H1568.1
- "Move stool before sitting on it": counsel proved wise by experience. Man thus saves self from falling into well. J21.34
- Holy man asked by king for the heart of religion answers: "You are sitting on your throne and I'm sitting on the ground, so how can I tell." J1289.18