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- Rainbow from gods' emptying their drinking cups. A791.6
- Transformation by tying charm around person's neck. D585.1
- Disenchantment by untying enchanting knot. D765.2
- Self-tying thread. (Cf. D1184.) D1601.13
- Rainstorm produced by emptying contents of bag in road. D2143.1.8
- Test of resourcefulness: to eat food without untying cloth containing it; hole torn in cloth. H506.7
- Explanation of phenomenon: large pond emptying itself into several smaller pools (man may spend without getting any return). H614.2
- Task: tying the sun with a stone chain. H1023.23
- Task: emptying in one day a barn filled with manure. H1102.2
- Task: emptying the lake with a pail in one day. H1143.1
- Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
- Captive tied to captor escapes by tying end of rope to a post. K638
- Tying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangled. K1447
- Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move. K2383
- Priest frightens boy by tying girl's corpse to bell-rope. In revenge the boy puts the body in the priest's bed. Priest flees. Dies from injuries. N384.8
- Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Q415.1.2
- Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Q473.2
- With her teeth woman files away chain tying up husband. R121.10
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