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- Moon splits hare's lip with hatchet: hence hare-lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A751.5.1, A2342.1.) A2216.3
- Bean laughs till it splits: cause of black stripe. (Cf. A2793.1, F1025.1.) A2741.1
- Magic object splits or cuts things. D1564
- Magic pebble splits wood. (Cf. D931.) D1564.1
- Saint's spittle splits rocks. (Cf. D1001.) D1564.2
- Saint's bachall splits rock, cuts stone, and cleaves ground. (Cf. D1277.) D1564.3
- Saint's curse splits rocks. D1792.1
- Dwarf splits wood using penis as wedge. F451.3.4.10
- Man splits into two parts. F525.2
- Earth splits and plain sinks to become bottom of lake when tabu is broken. F944.4
- Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splits. F1025.1
- Afraid of his knees. A man awakes with his knees in the air. He thinks the knees are a lion and splits them with his axe. J2617
- Oath so heavy it dries up stream; oath so great it splits the rock in twain; oath so violent it makes the tree wither. M115.1.1
- Gunshot splits limb and catches feet of birds. X1124.3.1