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- Mountains from stones dropped from giant's clothes. He carries the stones in his clothes but loses them as he walks. A963.1
- Why leopard walks alone. He killed treacherously his saviors and all animals deserted him. A2433.2.3.1
- Why baboon walks on all fours. A2441.1.2
- Faster one walks, longer the trail. The slower, the shorter. D1783.3
- Saint walks through glowing coals without harm. D1841.3.2.2
- Ghost will vanish if seer walks around it nine times. (Cf. D1791, D1273.1.5.) E439.8
- Ghost walks through solid substance. E572
- Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.) F235.9
- Beast-like anchorite. Walks on all fours; covered with hair like beast; has horns like beast. (Cf. F521.1.) F526.4
- Boy lives on ox. Never walks on ground. F562.1
- Thief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road. F676.2
- Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders. F681.9
- Person walks unceasingly for year. F1032
- Devil visible to one who walks in minister's (or minister's wife's) holy shoes (galoshes). G303.6.2.4
- Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) H761
- Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Walks on a stick horse.) H1053.5
- Priest walks in the mud. Congregation follows evil ways of priest. He walks in mud but they will not follow him. He thus shows them the folly of following his evil ways. J82
- Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid. J1551.8
- Bishop struck for breaking the peace. At a wedding after a period of silent prayer the bishop begins an antiphony. The fools walks up and strikes the bishop: "You have made this shouting in the church." J1823.2
- 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