• Tabu: drinking wine touched by hand of heathen. C272.1
• Music-box continues playing when it is touched contrary to tabu. C915.1.1
• Midas' golden touch. Everything touched turns to gold. D565.1
• Magic object gives alarm when touched. D1612.6
• Singing tree when touched wakes master. (Cf. D950, D1615.1.) D1612.6.1
• The waters of seas, lakes, and streams turn aside and let the holy man walk through untouched by moisture. (Cf. D1551.) D1841.4.3.1
• Any work touched automatically done. D1935
• Flower blooms when touched. D2195.1
• Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
• Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse. H1558.12
• Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes. J1577.1
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Race won by deception: bow and arrow. Certain goal to be touched. Man shoots arrow and wins. K11.8
• To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up. K285
• Thief leaves food untouched when owner pretends to be poisoned by it. (Playing poison.) K439.4
• Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
• The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
• Nobility of character a mark of kings. Kings overcomes passion for beautiful captives and sends them back untouched to their people. P12.9
• Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched. T386
• Cow touched by arrow becomes pregnant. T532.4

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