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- Cliff from lovers' leap. Lovers in despair throw themselves from a high place. This becomes a cliff. A968.2
- Why the center of man's eye is black: blackened by spirits to make themselves invisible. A1319.7
- Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc. A1346.2
- Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
- Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones. B95
- Horses determine road to be taken. They are left to pick out the road themselves and to stop at the destination. B151.1.1
- Shut in with elephants, blackbird orders ants to burrow themselves into the elephants' brains. B524.1.8
- Birds save man from hunger by pitching themselves to roast in fire he has made. B531.5
- "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right" devil's bargain. Three brothers have agreed to say only these things. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.1
- "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
- Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer. D671
- Gods have power to transform themselves. D698
- Stones remove themselves. (Cf. D931.) D1641.2
- Stones prostrate themselves before certain persons. (Cf. D931.) D1648.3
- Magic turned against the makers, so that they are bewildered and kill themselves. D1783.5
- People magically continue hurting themselves. Try to drive ox but drive themselves; to stab it but stab themselves; etc. D2184
- Revenants want to warm themselves. E578.1
- Ghosts warm themselves around fire. E578.2
- Demons amuse themselves by plaguing souls in hell. E752.1.2.1
- Life token: trees prostrate themselves. E761.3.4