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- Why a certain tribe wear clothes like dogs (supposed descendants of a bitch mother). A1683.2
- "Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind. A2332.6
- Leek put under the tongue of supposed dead person preserves him from harm by burial. (Cf. D983.3.) D1389.12
- Ghosts haunt house. (It is sometimes hard to tell whether haunters are supposed to be ghosts or familiar spirits of some kind.) E281
- Fairy spell averted by turning coat. This is supposed to reverse the spell. F385.1
- Dame Berchta. Supposed to travel over the country at night with a troop. (Named from Bertha, the mother of Charlemagne.) Also called Frau Holle. F475.1
- Serpent-eye. Eyes so keen that man is supposed to have serpents in them. F541.1.4
- Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. F1041.16.10
- Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
- Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
- The thief is tricked into betraying himself in supposed ordeal. J1141.16
- Person runs from actual or supposed ghost. (Cf. E293, J1483.) J1495
- Man runs from actual or from supposed ghost. The ghost runs beside him. The man stops to rest; the ghost stops, says, "That was a good run we had!" The man says, "Yes, and as soon as I get my breath, I'm going to run some more." J1495.1
- The abbot cannot find his needle. An undesirable abbot furnishes adequate grounds for his dismissal when he cannot find the needle that all monks are supposed to carry with them. If careless in little things he will be careless in great. J1651
- Glowing wheel supposed to be the devil. J1781.3
- Objects supposed to be born, grow, and die like animals. (Cf. J1932.) J1896
- Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. J1931
- Falling star supposed to have been shot down by astronomer. J2275.1
- Clouds supposed to come from smoke. J2277.1
- Supposed dead man on bier threatens his bearers. J2311.5.1