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- Why earth becomes warm and wet: two huge copper vessels steaming over fire are underneath earth. A857.1
- Mice gnaw through metal vessels. B747.3
- Tabu: profaning hallowed clothes and vessels. C93.2
- Transformation: statue to drinking vessels. D454.15
- Vessels reveal guilt. (Cf. D1171.) D1318.12
- Vessels burst and reveal disobedience. D1318.12.1
- Poet's spell causes ale vessels to burst when request for ale is refused. (Cf. D1275.4.) D1318.12.1.1
- Body cut up and buried in vessels, buried in bag. E431.18
- Earth swallows up Temple vessels. F948.1.1
- Devil piles sand in ocean so that vessels may run aground. G303.9.9.5
- King has earthen vessels placed on table among the golden ones. He had formerly been a potter and prefers the vessels which he had made to the ones now molding him. J913
- Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels. J2214.7
- Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off. J2469.4
- Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." K2371.3
- Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Q512.1