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- After world catastrophe, new sun reappears and starts new epoch. A719.2
- Wedding of turkey and peacock. All birds invited except eagle. This omission starts great conflict. B282.1
- Saint's bell starts crops growing. (Cf. D1213.) D1563.1.4
- Magic gift: power to continue all day what one starts. One woman measures linen; another throws water on pig. D2172.2
- Fairies abduct young woman, return her when fight starts over her. F329.2
- Farmer is so bothered by brownie that he decides he must move to get rid of the annoyance. He piles all furniture on wagon and starts for new home, meets acquaintance who remarks: "I see you're flitting." Brownie sticks his head out of the churn on top of the load, answers: "Yes, we're flitting." Farmer goes back to former home. F482.3.1.1
- Excreta is so fiery it starts great fires. F559.3.1
- Story told about a deer: fool starts chase. J1849.1.1
- The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. J2241
- Trickster starts argument and steals from arguers. K341.27
- "Have we leave to go?" Two prisoners are made stable boys on their promise not to escape secretly. Before horse race starts they ask: "Do we have your leave to go?" They go home. K475.2
- Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession. K1083
- Wager: to swallow egg with one gulp. Tricksters give numskull egg with chick in it. Fool hears chick peep as he starts to swallow his egg, but he says that the chick peeped too late. N75
- Feud starts over trifle. N387
- Quarrel over dog starts the Guelph-Ghibelline feud. N387.1
- Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged. P313.1
- Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon. S54.1
- Learning a trade in bed. Working independently, the lazy fellow spoils the materials received – starts making something big, which at the end turns to nothing. For example, begins with forging a plough: this becomes an axe, the axe a knife, and knife a needle, the needle – nothing. (Cf. J2080.) W111.5.9
- Warriors contend with each other until battle starts. When they agree to engage in battle, they cannot endure to be without combat. W212.2