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- Saint goes to heaven every Thursday (each day) and talks with angels. A182.3.0.3.1
- Man from sugar-cane stalks. A1255.1
- Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day. A1593
- Man talks to dead wife in grave. E322.9
- Life token: bamboo stalks grow with joints upside down. E761.3.1
- Fairies steal stalks of hemp and turn them into horses. (Cf. D449.5.) F241.1.7
- Fairies snip corn from stalks. F369.5.1
- Quest for thread from lotus stalks growing on Vishnu's navel. H1289.4.1
- Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
- Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating. J2355.2
- The dead girl frightens father and lover. The girl dies. The lover, thinking that she is asleep, talks to her. When he hears the father speak of her as dead he is frightened that he has talked to the dead. The father hears the lover talk and thinks that it is the girl's spirit. Both flee. J2621
- Oath literally obeyed: to tell no Christian. Woman thus sworn to secrecy talks to her unchristened child. K2312.1
- Numskull talks to himself and frightens robbers away. N612
- Woman talks to her child before it is conceived. T575.2
- Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) X111.1
- Lie: remarkable cornstalks. X1455.1