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- Origin of wishing long life to person who sneezes. A1537.1
- Creation of cat: sneezed from lion's nostrils. Devil as mouse gnaws hole in bottom of ark. Noah asks lion's help. Lion sneezes and cat comes from lion's nostril and eats mouse. A1811.2
- Ghost in form of bear sneezes. (Cf. E423.2.1.) E552
- Monkey sneezes in king's presence like rabbit. Killed. J2413.6
- The polite rescuers. Pupils are taught to clap their hands and say "God bless you" when one sneezes. As they are rescuing a drowning man by a rope he sneezes. They all clap their hands and he falls back into the water. J2516.3.2