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- Food left on magic stone brings good luck thereafter. (Cf. D931.) D1561.1.6
- Magic waxing and waning of strength. It waxes till noon and wanes thereafter. D1836
- Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) F335.1
- Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
- Trained deer drinks wine till he breaks his leg but thereafter abstains. Thus teaches lesson to master. J133.3
- Eyes treated for the stomach ache. A man who has stomach ache from eating bad bread is treated for his eyes so that he will thereafter be able to tell good bread from bad. [Inadvertant duplication of X372.3.] J1603
- Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed. K1222
- Noble woman given to foreigners on condition that thereafter their land be held by female right. P61
- Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q553.5
- Shrewish wife driven from home but when in danger, runs to husband and receives protection. She is a good wife thereafter. T251.2.5
- Hand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. Too splendid for man's sight thereafter. V222.1.2
- First-born son and one of every ten born thereafter given to Church. V451
- Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3