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- Sky-traveling snake. B91.4
- Tabu: king traveling alone. C563.1
- Tabu: traveling beyond spot where feat of skill was performed before duplicating it. C833.6
- Life prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each year. D1855.5
- The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) E332.3.3.1
- Traveling stones. (Cf. D1431.) F809.5
- Witch out of body while traveling at night is injured; witch's body is injured at home. (Cf. G275.12.) G275.14
- Riddling remarks of traveling companion interpreted by girl (man) at end of journey. H586
- Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
- Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out. H1125
- Task: traveling till two skeins of thread are unwound. H1125.1
- Man with magic knowledge defeats his competitors in quest by misinforming them about the character of country they will be traveling (for a place where there is no water he makes them bring loads of wood; for a place where water is he makes them bring along loads of water). H1239.4
- Man desirous of traveling sent six miles to deliver a letter. Told that he has now seen the world, for he will never see more than valleys, hills, fields, meadows, water, streets, cities, and villages. J1076.1
- Second-born son declared as successor because message about the birth of first son was slower traveling. Emperor will not change proclamation. P17.3.1
- Girl rescued by traveling through air. R111.3.1