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Motifs
- Origin of canes: from whip thrust into ground. A2825
- Stick thrust in ground changes into spirit hut. D451.6.2
- Sack of gold retains at will any hand thrust in it. (Cf. D1193.) D1318.14
- Magic fly-whisk stops sword-thrusts. (Cf. D1287.) D1381.13
- Spirits driven off by knife-thrusts and pistol shots. F405.2
- Trees pulled up and thrust into the ground upside down by Antichrist, a giant. F621.2.1
- Devil is thrust into hell by God. G303.8.3.1
- Ogre (demon) with long arm (demon hand) which is thrust down chimney (through door, etc.) G369.5
- Task: drawing spear thrust through seven iron plates. H1149.7
- Miser induced to thrust his head into bag; noose pulled by thief afterwards. K711.2.1
- Murder by thrusting spear (tongs) into mouth. K951.1.2
- Eye-remedy. Under pretence of curing eyesight the trickster blinds the dupe. (Often with a glowing mass thrust into the eye.) K1011
- Devil in roof of church into which he thrusts voices of loud singers. (Cf. Q223.) Q554.2
- Fathers thrust sons above water even as they themselves drown. R153.3.5
- Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors. S139.2.2.7
- Blinding by thrusting needles into eyes. S165.3
- Person can be killed only by red-hot spits being thrust through soles of his feet. Z312.1