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- Deity's messenger can assume any guise he wishes. A165.2.0.1
- Beetle makes immoderate request; ant moderate: inverse awards. Creator hears wishes of animals. Beetle wants strong, noble appearance. Ant is modest. Beetle punished by being made to creep on ground. Ant is given own castle. (Cf. A2441.3.1.) A2232.3
- Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master). B271.3
- The Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the load. C11
- Mother wishes lazy daughter may marry devil. Devil appears and marries her. C12.4.1
- Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
- Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
- Transformation to likeness of ruler. Man so uses the last of three wishes granted to him. D41.1
- "Witch bone" enables possessor to control animals in any way he wishes. D1442.8
- Magic wishing-object. Object causes wishes to be fulfilled. D1470.1
- Magic ass's head fulfills wishes. (Cf. D1011.0.2.) D1470.1.7
- Magic coin fulfills wishes. (Cf. D1288.) D1470.1.28
- Self-grinding mill. Grinds whatever owner wishes. (Cf. D1263, D1470.) D1601.21
- Magic island moves about as owner wishes. (Cf. D936.) D1643.3
- Wishes granted without limit. D1761.0.1
- Limited number of wishes granted. D1761.0.2
- Man to have wishes if he can repeat them in one breath. D1761.0.2.1
- 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
- Ghost returns to enforce its burial wishes or to protest disregard of them. E419.8
- Ghost laid when its wishes are acceded to. E459.3