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- Demon (opposed to God) allowed to earth four times a year (but must let people know who he is and not deceive them). A106.2.1.2
- God's day is one thousand years. A199.5
- Five hundred years travel across universe. A658.2
- Years are days in Tusita world. A697.2.1
- Sun does not set for a year through power of saint. A725.1
- Cattle and sheep of the sun. 350 of each (= days and nights of the lunar year). A732.1
- No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2.1
- Nature transformed by God once in seven years. A1103
- First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old. A1271.4
- Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1–30 vigorous (man's own); 30–48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48–60 no teeth (dog's); 60–70 foolish (monkey's). A1321
- All customs for the year established. A1502
- Tree protects Jesus from rain: is green all year. (Cf. A2765.1.) A2711.4
- Why wheat must be planted in one year and harvested in the next. A2793.2.1
- Why buckwheat produces twice a year. A2793.9
- Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.) B12.1
- Phoenix renews youth when 1,000 years old. B32.1.1
- Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her. B81.3.2
- Mermaid appears once each year. B81.12.2
- Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
- Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead. B172.2