Motifs

MOTIF ID USED MOTIF NAME
a1 58 The old sun
a10 6 The sun finds its eyes
a11a 33 Eyes of the Sun and the Moon: coolness and night
a11b 33 One-eyed luminaries
a11c 4 The Sun, the Moon and monster’s eyes
a12 306 Eclipses: monster’s attack
a12a 97 Eclipses: a predator animal
a12b 24 Eclipses: a frog or toad
a12c 76 Eclipses: reptiles and fish
a12d 29 Eclipses: birds
a12e 6 Spider is enemy of celestial bodies
a12f 19 Eclipses: the creditor
a12g 5 Revenge on the Moon for his denunciation
a13a 9 Raven hides the Sun
a13a1 29 Raven obtains the Sun
a13b 5 Ants shade the Sun
a14 106 Eclipses: relations between the Sun and the Moon
a14a 126 The conflict between the Sun and the Moon
a15 15 Eclipses: crossing of the paths
a16 32 Dangers along the Sun’s way
a17 47 The Sun’s relax at the midday
a18 28 The Sun boat
a19a 8 By horse in the morning, by ox in the evening
a19b 6 By snail in summer, by bird in winter
a19c 24 The sun horse
a19c1 20 The sun cart
a1a 2 Parrot was the sun before the Sun
a2 65 Several suns
a20 48 Childhood and youth of the Sun and Moon
a21 92 Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky
a21a 6 The released Moon
a22 30 To the sky from a bonfire
a22a 14 The hot Sun and its cold companion
a22b 8 Hot fire and cold ashes
a22c 17 Person sacrificed to the Sun
a22d 4 The burned up persons turn into constellation
a23 40 Elections of the Sun to be
a23a 45 Who will see the Sun first?
a23b 32 First beams on the tree tops
a23c 37 Who will fly higher?
a23d 15 Who will be the first in the calendar cycle?
a24 50 The first sunrise
a24a 5 The first day or night: transformed into spirits
a25 7 Getting accustomed to the light
a26 4 The Sun-bird
a27 44 Crowns of the Sun and Moon
a28 20 The smart Sun and the unwise Moon
a29 14 The Sun and a demon compete for the hero
a29a 7 Torn in half by two women
a29b 10 The Moon torn in half
a2a 108 The sun is a source of distructive heat
a2a1 23 The Moon was as bright as the Sun
a2b 81 Extra suns and moons annihilated
a2b1 26 The last sun
a2c 27 Extra suns are children of the present one
a2c1 9 The Sun abandons his marriage plans
a2c2 11 The extra moons
a2d 16 Suns of the other worlds
a2e 8 The Sun and the Moon are cut off heads
a3 354 Male sun and female moon
a30 9 The Moon eats the dead
a31 104 The incestuous Moon
a31a 9 The cut off breast
a32 401 Figure on lunar disc
a32a 68 The Moon rabbit
a32b 42 The Moon toad
a32b1 12 Jumps on the face of the Moon
a32c 20 A man and a dog in the Moon
a32c1 28 Predator animal in the Moon
a32d 299 Man in the Moon
a32d1 27 Cain and Abel in the Moon
a32d2 14 Person with pitchfolk in the Moon
a32dd 31 Firewood-carrier in the moon
a32e 158 Person with an object in hands
a32f 80 Water-carrier in the Moon
a32g 18 Holding a bush
a32h 78 The Moon plant
a32i 12 A shepherd in the moon
a32j 6 A shaman in the moon
a32k 16 First to the Sun, then to the Moob
a32l 8 Figure in the Sun
a32m 7 The Gypsy Sun
a33 11 The sun ram
a34 23 The fox and the Moon
a35 207 Spots on the lunar disc
a35a 29 Dirty face of the Moon
a35b 9 To smear the Moon with pitch
a35c 13 Scars and wounds on the Moon’s face
a36 75 The immortal Moon
a36a 12 The immortal Sun
a37 72 The Sun is attacked with weapons
a37a 12 Shooter hides underground
a37b 9 Shooter’s thumb cut off
a37c 5 Shooter’s arrow hits an obstacle
a38 61 The Sun caught in snare
a38a 8 Snare of pubic hair
a38b 23 Mouse gnaws snare open
a38c 12 The Sun’s cloak
a38d 10 The Sun ruins cloak
a39 6 The new sun every day
a39a 47 Twelve months
a4 254 Female sun
a40 21 The Sun or Moon marry toad
a41 20 The Sun swallows her children
a42 20 Phaethon: false Sun fails to fulfill his duty
a42a 8 The Sun’s imitator falls to earth (Phaethon)
a43 17 Person with a shoe on one foot
a43a 8 The Moon in one moccasin
a44 57 Moon the protector
a45 43 The insulted Moon
a46 25 The Sun and Moon emerge from the eyes of a being
a46a 29 The Sun and Moon are eyes of a deity
a47 14 The Sun is born from an egg
a4a 20 The Sun dazzles eyes
a4b 11 The Sun is afraid of the night
a4e 0 Rider of the clouds
a5 344 The Sun and the Moon are males
a5a 8 The Sun created from the Moon’s swaddling clothes
a6 70 The Sun and the Moon are females
a7 47 The sun pursues the moon
a7a 19 Torches in hands of celestial bodies
a8 3 The Sun, the Moon and the Star are three siblings
a8a 9 The Sun, the Moon and the star: released by the hero
a8b 22 The Sun in the land of the dead
a9 5 The moon defends people
b1 76 Two male creators
b10 42 Drunk out water
b100 14 The acquisition of the sleep
b101 9 Slashes on birch bark
b102 14 Clouds from smoke
b102a 19 Clouds are cows
b103 13 Cornel-tree fruits
b104 6 Chicken turns into tortoise
b104a 9 Meat springs as toad on the face of an ungrateful son
b104b 6 Woman is changed in a woodpecker
b105 9 She daughter-in-law is transformed
b106 9 The sky cock
b107 2 The black oyster
b108 3 Person turns into snow
b109 47 Person turns into bear
b109a 3 Bear from the sky
b110 17 If by back, the ravines, if by head the red flowers
b110a 5 Falling person turns into snow and wind
b111 6 Bees emerge from the bull
b112 5 Bird helps to return property and is decorated
b113 8 Bottoms of women and knees of men
b114 9 Old person turns into anteater
b115 16 Evergreen trees
b115a 11 Knots put in wood
b116 62 The first book eaten up
b116a 14 Knowledge preserved in the stomach
b116b 16 Sacred book gets wet
b116c 47 Sacred book lost
b117 34 The dogs' certificate
b118 4 One who remained on earth turns into the owl
b119 3 Husband of magic wife turns into the cock
b11a 8 Mammoth creates the landscape
b12 63 Rivers and snakes
b120 8 The hibernation of snottish people
b121 3 A bird is eager to fill up the sea
b122 9 The birds and the babies
b123 7 The flies instead of nails on Christ’s heart
b124 7 Depression on human foot
b125 112 Animals exchange their organs
b125a 5 Nightingale and blindworm
b125b 16 The party and the borrowed organ
b125c 5 Beaver and muskrat exchange tales
b13a 26 Stream follows person
b14 14 To regulate the river current, person creates rapids and falls
b15 13 River from woman’s body
b16a 9 Sea from the urine
b16b 6 Wolverine makes the sea salty
b16c 42 Salt-grinding mill
b17 53 Night in container
b18 49 Light in container
b19 14 The night and the married life
b1a 6 Three worlds: the universe divided between gods
b1b 5 Two female creators
b1c 9 One creator deceives another
b1d 8 Good and bad workers
b1f 38 Two brothers: a winner and a failure
b1g 8 The transformers: four brothers
b20 7 Expedition to the upper world
b21 8 Destruction of the world tree
b22 9 Offended person destroys the tree
b22a 3 Lads and tapir
b23 11 Prohibited fire and smoke
b24 8 Transformation into wild pigs
b24a 6 Circle of feathers
b25 6 Pigs fall from a tree
b26 57 Man joins wild animals
b27 36 Variants of transformations
b27a 8 Transformation into thunder and lightning
b27b 13 Transformation into stars
b28 64 Travelling transformer
b28a 6 Riveted to the ground
b28b 14 Pacification of things
b28c 2 Lice grasp a man and pull him into the sea
b28d 18 Unrecognized Transformer
b28d1 10 Man transformed into deer, his knives into antlers
b28e 9 The Moon organizes the world
b29 50 Eschatological feast
b2a 297 The female earth
b2b 22 The earth eats the dead
b2c 16 The earth is a human body, is born by the woman
b2d 104 Marriage of the sky and the earth
b2e 58 The male earth
b2f 15 Difficult funerals
b2f1 10 Buried in a head
b2f2 5 Carrying the unburied corpse
b2g 5 Chameleon walked while the earth was still soft
b3 18 A primeval swamp
b30a 7 Murdered person turns into fish
b30b 11 Murdered person turns into game animals
b31 39 Women turn into water mammal
b32 6 Women turn into fish
b32a 2 Pursuers turn into water mammals
b33 51 Mother of wind
b33a 44 Person dies of cold in the spring
b33a1 27 The offended March
b33b 8 A bird of march
b33c 34 The borrowed days
b33d 35 The old woman of winter
b33d1 13 Days of week are (demonic) persons
b33e 7 If February were like January
b33e1 10 To freeze an embryo in the womb
b33e2 6 March breaks cattle’s horns
b33f 17 Night that unwinds her yarn
b33f1 12 Mistress of night and day
b33f2 9 In search of the fire, hero ties up an old woman
b33g 6 Three horsemen (the Sun, the Moon, the Night)
b33h 43 The mother of the Sun
b34 9 Overtaken by the first night
b35 7 Waddling bear
b35a 8 Tree fulfills wishes and then transforms into bear
b36 70 Creatures acquire their physical traits
b36a 63 Two creatures decorate each other
b36b 5 Birds obtain their voices
b36c 15 Fat animals
b37 59 Creatures are made appear as they are now
b38 82 The ruined painting
b38a 43 Two birds decorate each other
b38b 20 Two animals decorate each other
b38c 17 Raven and loon paint each other
b38d 7 Raven and owl paint each other
b38e 22 Tail base of the loon
b39 10 Narrow waist of an insect
b3a 326 Primeval waters
b3b 304 Earth grows big
b3c 11 An attempt to drown God
b3d 20 Earth from worm’s excrements
b3e 71 Earth falls on waters
b4 36 The fished out earth
b40 36 Rabbit as deer’s proxy
b40a 65 Missed opportunity to have horns
b40b 12 Horse exchanges features with cow
b41 46 The talking dog
b41a 19 Animal reveals master’s secrets
b42 134 Cosmic hunt
b42a 6 Blood or fat drops to earth
b42b 71 Sky hunters pursue an ungulate
b42c 20 Sky hunters pursue a bear
b42d 5 Sky hunters pursue a tapir
b42e 6 Sky hunters pursue a rhea
b42f 55 Ursa major is an ungulate
b42g 43 Ursa major is a game animal(s)
b42h 40 The Belt of Orion is the game, other star is the hunter
b42h1 17 Hunter's arrow hits the animal
b42h2 5 Reddish star is the arrow
b42i 6 Cassiopea is the deer
b42k 25 Cosmic hunt and the Pleiades
b42l 23 Animal is the dipper, hunters are the handle
b42m 12 Second hunter’s cooking pot
b42m1 9 Yurak, Selkup and Tungus
b42m2 9 The boaster and the hurried one
b42mn 23 One hunter chases the sky elk
b42n 73 Orion is one person
b42o 6 Broken back constellation
b42o1 4 Ursa major is a fisher
b42p 32 Ursa major is a bear
b42q 62 Ursa major is a carriage
b42r 11 The Belt of Orion: one runs after another
b42s 11 Hit with a projectile
b42t 61 Ursa major is a big mammal
b42u 29 Big Dipper’s handle are three persons
b43 42 Purusha
b43a 12 Person created from many objects
b44a 49 Council on seasons: units of time
b44b 22 Council on seasons: toes, claws, hairs, feathers
b44c 66 Should warmth and light exist?
b44d 3 Black-an-white animal is night and day
b44e 60 Dispute of ancestors
b44f 6 Fox stands for day
b44f1 17 Bear stands for night
b45 26 Marriage of winter and summer
b45b 11 The bull of cold
b46 79 Big Dipper is seven men
b46a 18 Stolen star of the Pleiades
b46a1 14 Stars of Big Dipper are robbers
b46b 12 Seven star sisters
b46c 102 Big Dipper is seven persons or animals
b46d 11 Extraordinary companions turn into stars
b47 16 The Pleiades bring cold
b47a 6 Split hood of the cow
b48 53 Predators become herbivorous
b48a 28 Other creatures’ flesh
b48b 9 Human flesh in the animals
b48c 12 Artifacts (tools) in pike's head
b48d 3 Pike swallows people
b49 16 Muddled request
b49a 6 How many cubs in a year
b49b 4 Teats of the cow
b4a 3 Islands cut off by a fish
b50 78 Whose blood is sweeter?
b51 19 Mosquito and thunder
b51a 46 The snake is an enemy of the swallow
b52a 14 Vulture creates the landscape
b52b 27 Some earth is concealed
b52c 22 Earth bigger than sky
b53 20 Creatures or objects from cut off genitals
b54 48 Chips turn into fish
b55 13 Leaves are fish
b56 13 Fire tongue of the crocodile
b57 39 Blood reddens world
b57a 12 Red sunset contains a message
b58 9 Wild turkey’s red neck
b59 14 A group of dancers ascends to the sky
b5a 14 Two creators: a dialogue
b5b 30 The universal mother
b5c 6 Primeval mother and daughter
b6 18 A man and a woman move around a post and meet each other
b60 29 Offended children abandon parents
b61 6 The mole’s paw
b62 21 Buzzard husband
b63 4 Transformation of lazy boys
b64 21 The bony fish
b64a 9 Small bones: war between fish and birds
b64b 9 Small bones: war between the fish
b64c 4 Small bones: fish fall from the sky
b64d 16 Bones are arrows
b65 5 Intestines turn into creepers
b66 6 Rope turns into creepers
b67 9 Tree turns to rocks
b68 26 The giant grouse
b68a 4 A punished bird: must carry a weaker one on its back
b68b 28 One who tried to scare the God
b69 51 Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes
b69a 8 Council on seasons, chipmunk participates
b69b 2 Frog’s back scratched: hence its stripes
b6a 4 One egg was thrown away
b70 18 Ears of the hare
b71 38 Aurora borealis
b72 24 The thirsty cuckoo
b72a 5 Mother, child and swans
b72b 10 A girl flies away as a bird
b72c 7 The blood of the running children paints objects
b72d 8 Wings from the cutting board
b73 9 The cuchoo: different legs
b73a 8 The cuchoo: in search of lost horse
b73b 33 The cuckoo: in search of lost family member
b74 13 The red-eyed wood-grouse
b74a 6 Red rags on eyelids
b74b 5 The marriage of the owl and the Moon
b75a 32 Sounds of the time of creation: voice of a person
b75b 7 Sounds of the time of creation: a creaking of trees
b75b1 6 Sounds of the time of creation: voice of a wife or mother-in-law
b75c 4 Sounds of the time of creation: a sound of the surf
b75d 6 Sounds of the time of creation: a murmur of the forest
b76 10 Waves turn into mountains
b77 219 Primeval sky close to earth
b77a 65 Giant pushed the sky up
b77b 38 Sky touched with a long object
b77b1 25 Sky touched with a pestle
b77b2 4 Sky touched with a broom
b77c 4 Serpent pushes sky up
b78 13 Shaking bed makes snowfall
b79 41 Cosmic egg
b79a 25 A bird laid an egg
b79a1 17 A bird dropped hard substance on water
b7a 14 The spit out water
b7b 42 Waters from broken pot
b7c 8 Water splashed out
b7d 5 Water flows from broken bone
b8 14 Frog hides the water
b80 13 Measuring of the world
b81 13 Rifle for the dog
b82 143 The white raven
b83 16 Bag too heavy to be lifted up
b84 12 Fungi and excrescences (ogress transformed)
b85 24 Wind pacified
b85a 10 Wind regulated
b85b 27 Bag of winds
b86 70 Babylonian tower
b86a 5 To get to the sky climbing oт each other’s back
b87 99 Alcor
b87a 20 Alcor is a dog
b87b 10 A harnessed wolf
b87c 15 Alcor is a rider
b87d 8 Alcor is a baby
b88 4 Job
b89 27 Owl as a king of birds
b9 51 Water in the tree trunk
b90 36 Master of wolves
b91 8 Sharp-eyed snail
b91a 11 Eyes borrowed and never returned
b92 24 Flint person turns into flints
b93 13 Meeting in the sky once a year
b93a 5 The bird bridge over the sky river
b94 16 Talking trees
b95 4 Burned bottom parts
b95a 4 Trickster punishes his anus
b96 8 The antagonist turns into sturgent
b97 21 Grateful person makes the bird pretty
b97a 20 The necklace of bird or animal
b98 59 The bat between birds and animals
b98a 40 Bat becomes an outcast
b98b 10 Bat and funerals
b98c 4 The bat is deceived by God
b99 14 Person turned into the nest of insects
c1 37 The collapse of the sky
c10 26 The flood: the wet tails
c10a 11 The flood: birds cling to the sky
c11 11 Divine father avenges his son
c12a 6 The dog and the world cataclysm
c12b 27 People descend from a dog
c13 36 The objects’ revolt
c14 60 Monsters destroy people
c15 6 The imprisoned feline
c16 48 Processed objects turn into animals
c16a 12 The offended mistress of animals
c17 11 Fire pit for the people
c18 23 Luring out the hidden Sun
c18a 38 The cock lures out the Sun from its hiding place
c19 198 Acquisition of the sun
c2 153 Deluge and conflagration combined
c22 3 Toad in search of thunder
c23 21 Tree eclipses sky-light
c24 11 The world in danger of falling down
c25a 6 Cooking soup in the Moon
c25b 54 A spinner in the Moon
c25c 13 The Big Dipper and the end of the world
c26 20 Guardian at the border of the non-human world
c27 14 A horn in the ice
c28 9 Unconsidered promise
c29 24 A listened in secret
c2a 7 Conflagration of the woodpecker
c2b 6 The burned Moon
c3 43 Snakes stops up a hole in the Noah’s arch
c30a 38 A pound of flesh
c30b 3 To clean traces off the field
c30c 12 To swallow the ocean
c30d 4 Not to spill a drop of urine
c31 23 The wise hedgehog (cosmology)
c31a 8 Celestial bodies or fire are promised to Devil
c31b 22 The wise owl
c31c 11 The wise bat
c32 3 Ship made of nails
c32c (motif is not in the correlation table) 37 Beware of cut off nails
c33 16 Prometeus (the chained strong man)
c33a 26 The restored chain
c33a1 4 A bird comes to peck the enchained man
c33b 3 The primordial stillness
c34 64 The deluge because of a wounded creature
c34a 6 Buried in sand
c35 13 Cosmic marriage cancelled
c35a 7 Wise adviser punished
c35b 6 Frog is the enemy of the Sun
c36 8 The final battle
c37 7 World catastrophe and the sloth
c38 15 People are coming soon
c39 12 The repaired sky
c39a 5 Heaven repaired with ice
c4 40 The flood: fruits fall from a tree
c40 3 Rocks fall from the sky
c41 4 Why the sky is blue
c4a 41 The flood: survival in a tree
c5a 128 Bird-scouts
c5b 33 Animal-scouts
c6 180 Valuables brought from the lower world
c6a 28 The diver is turtle or frog
c6b 43 The diver is muskrat (otter, beaver)
c6c 80 The diver is a bird
c6c1 18 Birds: successful and unsuccessful divers
c6c2 6 The punished loon
c6c3 22 The loon is successful diver
c6c4 49 The duck is successful diver
c6d 172 The aquisition of the earth from the lower world
c6e 11 The diver is a crustacean
c6f 10 Diving for drowned person
c6g 4 The diver is a wild boar
c6h 6 An insect brings the earth
c6h1 5 Earth is extracted from the belly of an invertibrate
c6i 8 Dirt stuck to body turns into the earth
c6i1 3 A heap of mud arises above the water
c6j 17 The acquiring of the earth linked to the creation of man
c6j1 42 The earth is brought by the God's enemy
c7 33 The flood: breaking the dam
c8 108 The couple of close relations originates the mankind
c8a 19 Grinding stones match
c8a1 8 Thread should enter the needle’s eye
c8a2 4 The stone lion
c8aa 94 Brother and sister beget the people
c8b 16 Siblings change their looks and marry
c8c 16 Mother and son produce people
c8c1 4 Father and daughter beget the people
c8d 4 The smallpox breaks tabou for incestuous marriage
c8e 22 Survival in the floating bottle gourd
c8f 5 Survival in the floating drum
c9 56 Warning about the coming flood
c9a 6 The flood: people turn into toads
d1 80 Female spirit of fire
d10 10 Fire sticks are two persons
d11 20 Food baked in armpits
d12 60 Food baked in the sun
d12a 3 At the sunrise, heat of the sun is enough for cooking
d13c 7 Trickster makes his brother’s wife laugh
d13d 15 To make hidden woman laugh
d13e 5 Hunters laugh at killed animals
d13f 14 Laughter and fire
d13g 13 Meet seen on teeth
d13h 10 The dead should not laugh
d13hh 6 Not to laugh visiting the dead
d13i 15 Broken tooth
d13i1 23 Showing his teeth, person betrays himself
d1a 4 Mother-in-law is the Fire
d1a1 6 Mistress of fire carries away woman’s baby
d1a2 8 The borrowed object is not burned
d1a3 4 Wife is the Fire
d1a4 11 The chat of two fires
d1b 95 Male spirit of fire
d2 10 Woman gives birth to the fire
d2a 5 Woman dies giving birth to the Sun or the fire
d4a 294 Theft of fire
d4a1 10 Dance fot the hidden fire
d4aa 12 Moth tries to steal fire from people
d4b 6 Retribution for using fire
d4c 22 Acquisition of summer
d4c1 6 Swimming elk diverts attention
d4d 10 Opossum steals fire
d4e 48 Coyote or fox obtain fire
d4e1 26 The dog and the fire
d4f 13 Beaver or fish let themselves to be roasted
d4g 19 Hummingbird discovers where the fire is (and brings it to people)
d4h 7 Swallow obtains fire
d4h1 8 Robin obtains fire
d4i 10 Beaver obtains fire
d4j 23 Rabbit obtains fire
d4k 8 Deer obtains fire
d4l 59 Fire from the sky
d4m 24 Fire owners dance
d4n 12 Person weeps asking for summer
d4o 25 Fire stealer pretends to be wet and cold
d4p 10 Parrot or parakeet obtains fire
d4q 7 Fly obtains fire
d5 76 Woman as the owner of the fire
d5a 16 Fire in woman’s genitals
d6a 17 Fire and crocodile
d6b 9 Burned person becomes a caiman
d7 42 Fire and toad
d7a 5 Fire and spider
d8 29 Fire and a predator animal
d9 65 Fire and vulture
e10 31 Pets turn into children
e11 207 The burned skin
e12 22 The animated drawing
e13 5 Drum is a lake
e13a 38 Sacred knowledge from under the water
e14 15 Sacred knowledge from the dead
e14a 5 Masks represent the killed demons
e15 20 Ducks and canoes
e15a 7 Breast bone as a canoe
e15b 7 Birds sew canoe covering
e16 9 Paddles edgewise
e17 14 Origin of design
e18 12 Snakes and containers
e19 5 Origin of drugs: person torn to pieces
e1a 12 First people of unstable materials
e1a1 6 Becoming sodden under the rain (origin of cripples)
e1b 82 Person of unfit materials
e1b1 9 Forbidden work for daughter-in-law
e1c 20 Person of excrements
e1d 10 Canoes of clay
e1e 2 Son as a stalk
e2 28 People made for a test
e20 17 Fish poison person
e21 10 Avenged victim of water creatures
e22 9 Swallowed person obtains knowledge
e23 9 Fleas make person move
e24 5 Origin of elbows and knees
e25 19 Arachne (the spider-weaver)
e26 7 People (women) transformed into fish become humans again
e27 11 People from drops of blood
e28 4 Moon's blood drops to earth
e29 14 Lizard gives proper hands
e3 11 New people from bones
e30 19 The make-believe spouse of wood
e30a 14 Make-believe spouse replaced with alive person
e30b 7 Pygmalion
e31 13 False Pygmalion
e31a 135 Creators and rescuers of a girl
e31a1 47 Three men construct a woman which becomes alive: to whom does she belong?
e31a2 13 That one is like her father, another is like her brother but this one is her husband
e31b 7 Rescuers of a man
e31c 71 Rescuers of an abducted girl
e32 86 People born from trees
e33 15 People from seeds
e34 4 Sacred flutes from ogre’s remains
e35 33 Webbed fingers
e36 37 Hard covering of the body
e36a 2 Nails as a priviledged part of the body
e37 14 Peoples from sticks
e38a 26 Woman gives birth to many embryos
e38b 30 People from gourd
e38c 4 First people are dumb
e39 17 Pig ancestor
e39a 3 Female animal conceives from man’s urine
e4 39 Creation from cuticle
e40 3 Nostrils upside
e41 7 Smith kneads iron with his bare hands
e41a 7 The invention of pincers
e5 4 Half-made man attempts to stand up
e5a 166 Mankind ascends from the underworld
e5aa 20 People grew like a grass
e5b 74 First couple from the underworld
e5c 135 People from the sky
e5d 19 Predator devours emerging people
e5e 6 The two-headed being is not allowed to come to the earth
e6 25 Because of a woman worlds become isolated
e6a 6 Way across waters
e7 20 Person stuck in a cosmic hole
e8 59 People of wood
e8a 12 People from the fruits
e8b 14 Woman hides in a fruit
e8c 25 Woman hides in a chip
e9 280 The mysterious housekeeper
e9a 15 Fox-wife
e9aa 4 Fox-wife in animals’ den
e9b 7 Elephant-wife
e9c 27 Ungulate animal-wife
e9d 47 Dog-wife
e9e 27 Puppy as a reward
e9f 21 Parrot-wife
e9g 17 Vulture-wife
e9h 83 Dove-wife
e9i1 65 Swan-wife
e9i2 28 Duck-wife
e9i3 22 Goose-wife
e9i4 7 Crane-wife
e9i5 6 Snail-wife
e9j 17 Monkey-wife
e9j1 3 Humans develope from monkeys
e9k 8 Spouse is honey (bee)
e9l 13 Mouse-wife
e9m 17 Bear-wife
e9n 11 Sea mammal-wife
e9o 42 Frog or toad-wife
f1 44 First woman is a transformed man
f10 72 Vaginal teeth knocked out
f100 6 Test of chastity (a queen and a servant girl)
f100a 3 Chaste woman revives a man
f100b 3 Chaste woman’s minor misdeed
f101 4 The rival woman tries to prevent the heroine to give birth
f11 17 Biting penis
f12 4 Man kills his wife with her lover’s penis
f13 8 Red penis of primates
f14 11 Son of a man and a rock
f14a 16 Birth from a rock
f15 10 Person’s penis sticks out of the ground
f16 52 Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics
f17 37 Misplaced genitalia
f18a 97 The long penis
f18b 27 Long penis after prohibited sex
f18c 26 Girls at the opposite bank
f18d 14 Long clitoris
f19 11 Dangerous frog paramour
f2 104 Pregnant limb
f20 37 A strong embrace
f20a 4 Humans and dogs
f21 5 Woman turns into a tree, penis captured
f22 43 Study of partner’s body
f23 17 Origin of menses: sexual act
f24 9 Origin of menses: a bite
f25 28 Origin of menses: girl smeared with blood
f26 5 Origin of menses: sacred objects lost
f27 49 Girls and the water spirits
f28 16 Primeval penis
f28a 14 Primeval penis grows from the ground
f28a1 6 Jumping penis
f28a2 5 A field of penises
f28a3 14 Nice for the girl, dangerous for the people
f28a4 7 Plants (fruits) as penises
f28b 15 Penis of wax
f28c 13 Bear penis in hands of old woman
f28d 12 Artificial conception
f29 26 Girl sits on the ground
f29a 10 Worm killed with boiling water
f3 21 A man eats woman’s pregnancy medicine
f30 148 Snake paramour
f30a 16 Worm-baby
f31 15 The snake egg
f32 29 Tree fruits for a woman
f33 65 Water creature paramour
f34 76 Land animal paramour
f34a 18 The paramour of primeval women
f34b 159 The paramour is not a human being
f35 107 Feeding with the paramour’s meat
f35a 186 Feeding with the kin’s meat
f36 41 Sons kill paramour
f37 14 Gourd vessel put on the surface of water
f38 64 Women and sacred knowledge
f39 70 The time of women
f3a 33 The pregnant man
f4 21 Child born in jug
f40a 34 Husband of the first women
f40b 55 A man in a village of women
f40c 12 Patriarch kills the boys
f41 15 The men kill the women
f42 18 The men abandon the women
f42a 8 Men turn into birds
f43 34 The women disappear
f43a 20 The women kill the men
f43b 5 Women disappear under the ground
f43c 8 Bat-husbands
f44 45 Women and men separate
f45 160 The Amazons
f45a 21 Conception from wind
f45a1 4 Accidental conception from wind
f45b 23 Conception from the Sun
f46 23 One for all
f46a 8 Woman in a tree
f47 29 Pieces of flesh turn to people
f47a 8 Men use pieces of woman’s flesh
f47b 8 New people on the old place
f48 4 Why women are different
f49 66 The abnormal birth
f49a 9 Animal explains how to give birth
f5 20 Brides for the first men
f50 35 The often-born children
f51 113 The clandestine lover
f51a 5 Aggressive sister
f51b 25 Following the thread
f51c 8 Provocative behavior after incest
f51d 6 The ginseng-child
f52 10 Pubic hair for a bird’s crest
f53 20 Ugly husband
f53a 16 Bat or owl hides his face
f54 50 Oedipus
f54a 11 Imperceptible scar (husband proves to be son)
f54b 3 Traces of feathers
f54c 8 Recognized by imprints of finger-nails
f54d 4 Conception from uribe
f54e 40 Unintentional killing of father
f55 17 What do you want?
f55a 7 To put an object on her naked body (the demon and the woman)
f56 25 Watching vagina triggers incest
f56a 7 Shavings into the fire
f57 7 Persephone picks a flower
f58 44 Trickster and women
f59 18 Man to woman: modified body
f5a 22 Woman created from a tail
f5b 31 Artificial bride
f6 25 Gouged our vagina
f60 21 Trickster cures maiden
f61 20 Trickster rapes a woman who carries him on her back
f62 142 Incognito at the feast
f63 56 Trickster poses as woman and marries man
f64 70 The lecherous parent
f64a 56 Describes future husband
f64b 31 Incestuous woman
f65 114 The false burial
f65a 65 Death feigned to meet paramour
f65b 29 Death feigned to eat burial food
f65c 25 The feigned burial: boy exposes deceit
f65d 9 The feigned burial: wife does not believe
f66 10 The false house
f67 10 Old woman pretends to be man
f68 4 Death feigned: woman dresses up as a man
f69 6 Obscene invitation
f7 155 The water-maiden
f70 106 Potiphar's wife: false accusation of sexual abuse
f70a 67 Disordered clothes as evidence against innocent man
f70b 82 Revenge of a rejected woman
f70c 16 The castrated youth becomes a man again
f70d 12 A disgraced informer
f70e 43 A girl turns into a man
f70e1 34 A daughter instead of a son
f70e2 14 Father tests his daughters or sons
f70f 10 Sex is changed accidentally
f71 80 Susan and the old men (the innocent slandered maiden)
f72 3 Imitated violence
f73a 5 Vulva is or thought to be wound
f73b 20 The bear beliefs that vulva is a wound
f74 22 Naked person shams dead
f75 4 A siren and a tapir
f76 28 Animals teach to make love
f77a 9 Penis bridge
f78 6 Toothed anus
f79 12 Animal wives
f8 42 Women and men come together
f80 22 Primeval people have no genitals
f80a 43 Genitals apart from the body
f81 12 Bride in a river
f82 29 Incest with mother-in-law
f82a 4 What owl cries about
f83 23 News precede man
f83a 29 Indecent proposal made through children
f83b 21 The stuck between trees she animal is rapes
f84 4 Prolonged celibacy imitated
f85 5 The Moon: contra men and pro women
f86 126 Conditional signal
f86a 18 An eaten up pet
f87 20 Transformed children of serpent’s wife
f87a 14 Snake’s wife and her children: transformation into birds
f87b 9 Snake’s wife and her children: transformation into trees
f88 18 Odor of women
f89 9 A smart sister
f9 217 A dangerous woman
f90 17 A tragic incest
f91 10 A worm-breeder
f92 17 Homosexual play
f93 9 The talking penis
f93a 6 The talking penis and mother-in-law
f94 7 Rival wives in the sky
f95 10 Wife of one of two brothers
f96 17 Ugly man becomes handsome
f97 30 The prohibited fruit: origin of sex
f97a5 5 Snake is deprived of its limbs
f98 9 God and a cow
f99 7 Baby copulates with his mother
f9a 106 Vagina dentata
f9a1 18 The pike's mouth
f9b 18 Piranha in vagina
f9c 28 Snake in vagina
f9d 18 Scorpions in the genitals
f9e 8 Mice in vagina
f9e1 52 Dangerous animal in vagina
f9f 26 Asmodeus
f9f1 38 Snake inside woman
f9f2 3 Hood of cobra in wife's bag
f9g 64 Brunhilde
f9g1 6 A heavy hand of the bride
g1 27 A kidnapped child
g10 29 The hanging tree
g11 19 Squirrel the woodcutter
g12 4 Tree is a person
g12a 6 Plants from drops of blood
g12b 14 Star-person gives plants
g12c 5 Fox brings plants from the sky
g13 17 People ate rotten wood
g13a 19 People ate dirt
g13b 19 Fungi as a false food
g13c 31 Bad food of the pre-agricultural epoch
g14 4 Swallowed man returns with plants
g15 29 Plant maidens
g16 15 Ants find cultivated plants
g17 30 Gift of a reptile
g18 28 Person wants to be sacrificed
g19 3 Burned men bring plants
g2 55 The return of Persephone
g20 56 Woman turns into plants
g21 29 Coconut palm from a human head
g22 12 Frog or toad and plants
g23 194 Alive being turns into many objects
g23a 56 Alive being turns into plants
g23b 23 Alive being turns into nations
g24 89 Food from the sky
g24a 11 Seeds of plants hidden on the body
g25 5 Cereals spilled over the earth
g26 14 Swallowed food: saved for people
g27 8 Plants from urine
g28 15 The fish tree
g29 27 Demon made of artifacts
g3 15 A rock of crops
g30 5 Chopped penis turns into plants
g31 5 Trees tied up with a rope
g4 16 A food mountain
g5 53 Food tree
g6 143 Primeval tree
g6a 44 Tree of the year
g7 17 Blunt axes
g8 120 Restored tree
g8a 21 Cutting tree to make a canoe
g8b 50 Cutting tree to get a person
g8c 21 Cutting tree to get valuables
g8d 20 Falling or growing up of a tree is dangerous to the world
g8e 9 Cutting the Moon tree
g8f 12 Chips destroyed
g8g 5 Big oak and its denizens
g9 29 Restored forest
g9a 14 Cultivated field turns into the virgin soil
g9b 12 Abandon your work, flood is coming
h10 29 Stone sinks, stick floats
h11 48 The call of God
h12 193 The alive person comes to the land of the dead after somebody’s death
h12a 5 Dead woman pursues her husband
h12b 8 Ghosts feed on excrements
h12c 75 Orpheus: to return the dead wife
h13 39 Dead person is returned and revives
h14 10 Woman flies back to the land of the dead
h15 12 Whisper and yawning
h16 21 Rivers of tears
h16a 62 Rivers of blood
h16b 50 The basin of milk
h17 9 Ring of defenders around the chief
h18 119 Hoarded game released
h18a 18 Pup lets animals lose
h18b 19 Cattle returns into water
h19 27 Raven tries to starve people
h1a 48 The originator of death the first sufferer
h1b 34 Death of a neighbor’s child
h1bb 4 The not revived dog
h1c 31 Stamped down grave
h1d 18 The first dead is rejected by the alive people
h1e 28 The first dead opens the road
h1f 4 People learn how to bury the dead
h2 27 The selfish animal
h20 59 Fish disperse in the world
h20a 24 Mistress of fish loses it
h21 16 Animals or fish kill a child
h21a 10 Not to kill a big fish
h22 10 Sense of smell
h22a 10 Animals disperse after being touched by people
h23 10 Fat horns
h24 195 Container opened too early
h24a 11 A bag with stars
h24b 21 Souls disappear from the opened container
h24c 15 Death in container
h24d 13 Still picks up what was let lose
h24e 8 To choose life or death
h24f 15 Meat in a package
h24g 6 Woman in the box
h25 15 To choose life or death
h26 34 Mosquitoes had to be drowned
h27 88 Mosquitoes let lose
h27a 16 A hole through the ground made with a pole
h27a1 15 Plagues emerge from a hole in the ground
h28 154 Plagues from the body of a person or creature
h28a 40 Mosquitoes from sparks and smoke
h28b 4 Mosquitoes from animal hair
h28c 3 Mosquitoes return wives
h29 26 Origin of foreigners
h3 9 Sham funerals trigger permanent death
h30 18 A wrong choice
h31 9 Origin of death: man and celestial bodies
h32a 31 Superfertility lost: a maltreated wife
h32b 6 Superfertility lost: a maltreated child
h33 25 Walking babies
h33a 14 Babies thrown across a hedge
h34a 78 Controversy over conditions of life
h34b 27 Rivers flow in both directions
h34c 13 Flying rice
h34d 19 Piece of sky bitten off
h34d1 15 Edible sky
h34e 22 The edible snow
h34f 15 Walking baskets
h34g 43 One grain porridge
h34h 12 Firewoods come by themselves
h35 26 Fragile teeth
h36 120 The muddled message
h36a 79 Origin of death from the falsified message
h36b 34 Death and the chameleon
h36c 32 Death and the lizard
h36d 9 Death and the hare
h36e 10 Death and the rat
h36f 15 Raven is a failed messenger
h36ff 37 Death and the raven
h36g 21 Muddled message: how many meals a day
h36g1 13 Bull distorts the message
h36g2 3 Beatle distorts the message
h36gg 34 Death and the coyote
h36h 7 The unhappy jump
h36hh 24 Death and the frog
h36i 15 Death and the goat
h36j 4 Death and the lark
h37 42 Magic device lost by a failure
h37a 5 Jump over brushwood kindles fire
h37b 6 Charge of skunk used to no purpose
h38 5 Supernatural person comes after his property
h39 17 Snakes become dangerous (the spilled poison)
h4 133 The shed skin
h40 55 Dog is the guard of man
h40a 4 Dog materializes at the moment of danger
h41 65 Death and the dog
h42 59 Creator goes away for a while
h43 31 One creates the body, another the soul
h43a 18 Broken figure of the first man
h43aa 31 Figure of the first man smeared with filth
h43ab 4 Man is mortal because somebody spit on him
h43ac 7 Creator’s enemy animates human figures instead of him
h44 25 Demonic spouse cuts in two her offpring from human being
h44a 7 Sky and Earth divide their children
h45 54 The abused bread
h46 41 The dog’s part
h46a 38 The dog and the spike
h47 39 Offended sky or earth
h48 29 Daughters of evil spirit
h49 45 Pet defends master’s child
h49b 16 The faithful dog as security for a debt
h49c 24 Faithful falcon killed
h49d 14 The poisoned fruit
h4a 33 Process of rejuvenation is broken
h5 146 People and snakes
h50 11 Sky god and mistress of the dead
h51 48 The demonic horse
h52 25 The land of immortality
h52a 10 Death tricks a person to touch the ground
h52b 9 The search of immortality
h53 13 Wolf is the master of the dead
h54 60 The eyelids of Viy
h54a 8 The old man’s hair-cut
h54b 38 The glance of death
h54c 3 Eyelids stretched wide
h55 72 Sinners in other world
h55a 6 Married couple under one blanket
h55b 30 The robber who repents his misdeeds
h56 18 The prohibited fruit (origin of death)
h6a 39 People and plants
h6b 29 The life-medicine spilled on plants
h6bb 23 The lost objects
h6c 56 The immortal raven
h6c1 33 Valuables in exchange for the nestling
h6c2 7 Water of life in the land of darkness
h6c3 14 The stock and the otherworld
h6d 12 Stolen immortality
h7 198 The personified Death
h7a 78 The Death and a doctor
h7b 61 The Death is stuck to a tree or a bench
h7b1 27 Devil (Death) captured in sack
h7b2 12 The immortal Poverty
h7c 32 The unfinished prayer
h7c1 12 Cunning man gets into paradise
h7d 27 The old man asks Death to help him to carry a load
h7e 22 Humans knew the time of their death
h7f 7 Death asks God whom he should eat
h7f1 5 Death eats the dead
h7f2 5 Death becomes invisible
h7g 18 The life candle
h7g1 51 Death is more fair and rich than God
h7g2 3 Failed escape from Death from the earth to the water
h8 19 The failed test
h9 51 Strong and weak
h9a 6 Who will give birth the first
h9b 7 Children as shoots of plants
i1 174 The thunderbirds
i100 92 The Pleiades are girls
i100a 28 The Pleiades are mother with children
i100b 170 The Pleiades are a group of people
i100c 5 The Pleiades and a cuckoo
i100d 6 Stars and kids
i101 18 Big Dipper is poles, a nailed skin
i102 10 Milky Way is a tree
i103 32 The dog star
i104 42 Stars are fragments
i105 17 The celestial hand
i106 23 Ursa major is a person
i107 11 Stars are nails
i108 75 The Pleiades are a person
i109 10 Milky Way is the path of the Sun
i10a 16 Colored layers of the sky
i10b 10 Colored layers of the earth
i11 66 Cosmic turtle or toad
i110 63 Night sky agriculturalists
i110a 44 The star plough
i110b 31 Orion is mowers
i111 11 The earth is a reptile
i112 10 The monster boat
i113 20 Pig with the golden bristle
i114 9 The golden fleece
i115a 31 Orion and the Pleiades as a man and women
i116 12 Milky Way is the border between the seasons
i117 56 Spider ferries from one world to another
i117a 9 Bat helps to descend from a rock
i118 17 Helpful spider-woman
i119 25 The dead shake the earth
i119a 9 The earthquake: is anybody alive?
i11a 24 The earth was put on the back of a turtle (frog)
i12 45 The world axis
i120 40 Cornucopia
i120a 15 Entering animal’s ear
i120b 19 Extracting values from animal’s ear
i121 65 Twin constellations
i122 6 The Pleiades are bees
i123 7 Altair is the Sun’s messenger
i124 24 Ursa major is a boat
i125 18 The Hiades are a jaw-bone
i126 20 Funerals in the sky
i127 27 Ursa major is a bed
i128 25 Ursa major is a dipper
i129 4 Constellation of Heron
i130 34 The sky net
i131 16 The thread of life
i132 6 Climbing a deer antlers up to the sky
i132a 5 A girl on the swing of the Sun
i132b 4 Bride of the Sun transformed
i133 17 Whole-sky constellation
i133a 8 The big bird constellation
i134 13 Long neck on the Milky Way
i135 12 The sky skin or cloth
i136 12 The demonic wheel
i137 4 Constellation of the bast-shoe
i138 36 The glass mountain
i139 22 Strong men throw an axe to each other
i13a 140 The horned serpent
i13b 33 A horned snake
i13c 65 Snake’s crown
i13d 25 Hibernating with snakes
i13e 7 The betrayed serpent
i14 105 No-anus people
i140 3 The staff of Moses
i141 66 The magic stick
i14a 21 Eject digested food through the mouth
i15 38 No-mouth people
i15a 3 A vertical cut
i16 54 Body anomalies of the first people
i17 96 Body anomalies of inhabitants of a distant land
i17a 10 Dwarfs without body openings
i18 24 A spouse or husband without anus or mouth
i19 56 People inhale the odor of food
i2 60 Lightning from eyes
i20 83 The undeground dwarfs
i20a 9 The sky giants
i20b 5 Belt on armpits
i20c 44 Dwarfs live in the underworld
i20c1 26 Dwarfes live in hills and rocks
i20c2 19 Dwarfs live at the horizon
i21 23 Red-haired people scorched by the sun
i22 196 Objects in permanent movement
i22a 42 Rising and falling sky
i22b 25 Birds fly to the outer world
i22b1 22 Birds perish at the border of our world
i22c 35 A plank from the stern of Argo
i22d 10 Water of immortality behind clashing rocks
i22e 17 Objects in permanent move on the way of the dead
i22f 32 Clashing trees
i22g 98 Clapping rocks
i22g1 4 Clashing stones
i22h 7 The pulsating precipice
i23 25 Snapping door
i24 30 A snake bridge
i25 103 The bribed guards
i25a 54 Bones to cows
i25b 9 To clean an oven with her own hair
i25c 20 To name bloody river the river of vine
i25d 13 To grease and oil gates and doors
i26 18 Dangers on the way of souls
i27 104 Chthonic canine
i27a 20 Towns and paths of dogs
i27b 16 Dog as a ferryman
i27c 32 The four-eyed dog
i27d 3 The black dog’s jaws
i28 126 Animals in the underworld
i28a 3 Animals produce earthquakes
i29 26 Animal’s hole leads to the underworld
i3 199 Weapon of Thunder
i30 10 Master of the dead welcomes women
i31 13 Master and mistress of the dead
i32 37 Tree of the babies
i32a 15 Tree of human life
i33 26 Tree of the dead
i34 8 The dangerous tree
i35 32 Dragging a hide produces thunder
i35a 14 Old woman’s thunder
i35a1 17 Challenge to Thunder-god
i35a1a 16 Insulting the God
i35a2 17 Thunder is rolling stones or vessels
i35b 18 The bronze sky
i35c 31 God the craftsman
i36 38 Thunder and lightning are relatives, spouses or in-laws
i37d 5 Mushrooms are excrements
i37d1 10 Mushrooms from St. Peter’s spittle
i37e 3 Fungi shout
i37f 54 Fungi are ears
i37g 8 Fungi are steps, platforms, obstacles
i38 57 The dog-heads
i38a 17 The dog-husbands
i39 109 Rainbow road or bridge
i39a 22 Souls of the dead walk upon the rainbow
i3a 17 Lightning is a whip
i4 45 Thunder rides in the sky
i40 85 Rainbow bow
i41 195 Rainbow serpent
i41a 18 Rainbow from anthill or termite nest
i41b 58 Rainbow drinks water
i41b1 15 Rainbow swallows fish
i41b2 8 Rainbow from the animal’s mouth
i41c 9 Sky object is a reflection of a snake
i42 48 Rainbow is a pair of creatures
i42g3 11 Edible house
i43a 49 The celestial monster
i43b 38 Milky Way is a serpent or fish
i44 46 Chthonic serpent
i45a 50 Not to point at the Moon or a star
i45b 157 Not to point at the rainbow
i45c 24 Not to count stars
i46 94 Rainbow belt
i46a 36 Old woman’s rainbow
i46b 16 Rainbow predicts future harvest
i46c 7 Rainbow rope
i46d 5 Rainbow snare
i46e 7 Rainbow sword
i47 39 Rainbow is filth
i47a 4 Rainbow is fox’s wedding
i48 43 Confined to the underworld
i48a 30 Falling down into the underworld
i49 16 The running earthquake
i4a 29 Thunder in trouble: falls to earth
i4b 26 Thunder in trouble: fights with his enemy
i4c 11 Storm-god as a prisoner
i4d 14 Theft of the Thunder-Instrument
i4d1 2 Storm-god’s stolen tendons
i4e 6 Storm-god as rider of the clouds
i5 53 Thunder is an animal
i50 52 Ungulate animal with more than four legs
i50a 35 Torn off legs of the helpful animal
i50a1 3 Torn off legs of a dog
i50b 4 Predator animal with more than four legs
i50c 3 Šarabkha (animal with legs on its back)
i51a 89 Bull the earth-holder
i51b 23 The earth is an animal
i52 86 Fish the earth-holder
i53 20 Insect bothers the world-supporting being
i54 19 Water creature full of fish
i55 60 Stars are openings
i55a 7 Stars are lakes
i55b 3 The sun deer
i56 35 Ghosts do not see people from earth
i56a 19 In the land of the ghosts human being is an evil spirit
i57 79 Thunder pursues his enemy
i58 35 Milky Way is the way of birds
i59 49 Milky Way is spilled straw
i59a 55 Thief in the sky
i59b1 31 Milky Way is the road to a remote city
i59b2 20 Milky Way is the way of St, Jacob
i59b3 7 Milky Way is the way of salt traders
i59b4 8 Milky Way is snow or rime
i5a 6 Thunderous tapir
i5b 7 Thunderous feline
i6 47 Weather birds
i60 14 Milky Way is a seam in the sky
i60a 5 Milky Way is a stripe on belly
i61 18 Milk on the Milky Way
i61a 12 Milky Way is a belt
i62 106 Milky Way is a river
i63 16 Milky Way is a path of tapir
i64 46 Milky Way is a trace of animals
i64a 11 Race along Milky Way
i65 95 Milky Way of the dead
i66 22 Ashes on Milky Way
i67 14 Emu and rhea in the Milky Way
i68 51 Opening of the sky
i68a 10 Night of the magic water
i68b 30 Night of the fulfilled wishes
i69 50 Star dung
i6a 29 Male and female birds: different kinds of precipitation
i7 77 The cloud serpent
i70 6 Water reptile on plants on its back
i71 10 Stars are roots
i72 276 Stars are people
i72a 62 Stars are children of the Sun and the Moon
i73 15 Stars are sparks
i74 25 Stars are stones
i74a 8 Stars are fire-flies
i75 30 World ages
i76a 28 Snake turns into dragon
i76b 9 Mouse turns into bat
i77 9 The lame thunder
i78 48 The square earth
i7a 9 The lightning- serpent
i7b 4 Lightnings are fissures in the sky-vault
i7c 22 Rain or dew is urine
i80 33 Thunder’s apprentice
i80a 11 The youngest Thunder
i80b 22 The forgotten wind
i81 20 Waters rush down into the underworld
i81a 15 The chthonic crab
i81a1 6 The crab and the serpent
i81b 13 Haribda (the origin of tides)
i82a 138 Venus is male
i82b 160 Venus is female
i82c 58 Venus is the Moon’s wife
i82c1 7 Two wives of the Moon
i82d 21 Morning and Evening stars are a man and a woman
i82e 3 Star who sold her mother
i82f 11 Venus is the Wolf star
i82g 18 Venus is the star of the shepard
i82h 45 Venus’ name is Čolpan
i82i 30 Venus is Zahra (Zuhra, Zura, etc.)
i83 59 The sky of birds
i84 30 Milky Way is a snow-shoes track
i84a 8 Son of God frozen to death
i85 62 Polaris is a pole, a nail
i85a 20 Animals walk around Polaris
i85a1 8 Polaris is the hole in the sky
i85b 27 Polaris is a person
i85c 17 Containers with weather
i85c1 38 The rain stored in the sky
i86 14 Hairs into animals, scales into fish
i86a 18 Down turns into snow
i87 18 Skull as a cave
i87a 43 Series of creatures ever greater in size
i87a1 17 Small or big? A dialogue
i87a2 52 What is Two?
i87aa 25 The big bull
i87ab 14 Only child was able to pick it up
i87ac 16 Bone in the eye
i87ad 9 Hidden in a hollow tooth
i87b 33 The quest for a strong adversary
i87c 17 The hut in a mitten
i87c1 5 A mouse makes a boat
i87d 23 Men in the time of giants
i87e 5 Dwarfs will replace people
i87f 6 Suicide of the Narts
i88 23 Animal with many tails
i89 23 The lost caravan
i8c 30 The suspended earth
i8e 27 Four men at the cardinal points
i8e1 112 Four supports of the world
i8f 68 One support of the world
i8g 74 Atlas
i8h 5 A man and a woman hold the earth
i8i 40 Original earth unstable
i9 84 Colors of the cardinal directions
i90 52 To follow the rolling ball of threads
i91 15 Water body at the base of a tree
i92 35 Rainbow transforms sex
i92a 9 Jump over the rainbow
i92b 17 Treasure under the rainbow
i93 21 Milky Way is the backbone
i94 31 The Pleiades are openings
i95 26 The Pleiades are a sieve for grain
i95a 19 Orion is a balance
i95b 12 Orion is a shoulder-yoke
i95c 29 Orion is a staff
i96 19 Bloody rainbow
i97 17 Rainbow horse
i98a 59 The Pleiades are a hen with its chickens
i98b 10 The Pleiades are a duck’s nest
i98c 10 The Pleiades is a flock of birds
i99 92 The Pleiades are boys or men
i9a 15 Zenith and nadir
j1 251 The vengeful heroes
j10 13 Insect’s bite
j11 18 Unborn child asks to pick up some flowers
j12 115 Travelling girl walks across suitors
j12a 5 Penis in a pot
j12b 6 Honey-suitor
j12c 8 Meeting at a feast
j12d 32 Imposter kills his rival
j12j 14 Imposter is a buffoon
j12k 12 A valuable partner and an imposter live in one house
j12l 8 A hypocritical murderer
j12m 4 Woman turns into duck
j13 106 Two sisters
j14 14 A flute-player
j15 93 Woman gets to dangerous creatures
j15a 40 Woman gets to jaguars
j15b 8 Woman gets to a toad
j16 14 Rejects to eat insects
j17 62 Frogs in hair
j18 26 Woman falls from the sky
j18a 24 Mother is eaten up, children escape
j19 23 Wicked guest murders woman
j19a 9 To serve food on the abdomen
j19b 3 Belly burned through
j19c 4 The pulled out tongue
j2 12 The tree-husband
j20 12 Wicked guest: woman breaks taboo
j21 63 Birth from eggs
j22a 30 Two men from one
j22b 8 Two women from one
j22c 5 The double woman
j22d 12 Two animals from one cut in two
j22e 12 Placenta person
j23 121 A late son kills monsters
j23a 8 A mucus-boy
j23b 7 Spears put all along the path
j23c 98 Youngest brother kills monsters
j23d 20 Young twins kill monsters
j23e 3 Flying though the ogre’s body
j24 11 Grounded to powder
j25 86 Babies escape and return
j25a 23 Son of the grave
j25a1 3 Child born in grave saves his mother
j25b 5 Dead mother fetches food for her baby
j26 210 Babies come out of the water
j26a 11 Boys and pups
j27 62 Lodge-boy and Thrown-away
j27a 6 Thrown-away kills his father
j27b 11 The water father
j28a 17 Truth about father
j28b 38 A hot scone
j29 11 Shadow of the father
j3 4 Impregnated from under the earth
j30 70 Parents’ remains
j31 49 Father’s weapon
j32 112 To identify the night thief
j32a 63 To guard father’s grave
j32a1 30 The night wreckers are horses
j32b 10 Night was made long
j32c 22 Demon comes to harm to the dead
j32d 70 Princess in a tower (The glass mountain)
j32e 16 The new-born foals stolen
j32f 63 The stolen apples
j33 15 The dummy
j33a 8 Old woman beats the dummy
j34 13 Frightened grandmother
j35 11 Helpful tree-frog
j36 7 Turtle as antagonist
j37 37 The antagonist is carried away by bird
j38 20 Talons got stuck
j39 16 Who killed a rabbit?
j4 158 Revenge for the death of the male relatives
j40 23 Enemy from the sky
j40b 28 Avenged prisoners
j41 13 Foxes jeer at the abandoned person
j41a 7 Son transforms mother into a bird
j41b 10 Son returns and burns tormentors using magic
j41c 24 Trials before confrontation with the antagonist
j41d 18 Strong man throws his iron cudgel and lets it fall on his head
j42 110 Waters split apart
j43 13 Bait for antagonists
j44 102 The broken bridge
j45 62 The stretched out leg (crane bridge)
j46 186 Enemy drowns
j47 111 Pursuer falls from height
j47a 39 Beanstalk to the sky
j47a1 5 Goats possess the food
j47b 10 The two ropes
j48 11 Parrot cuts the sky rope
j49 10 Moon’s wife cannot follow him
j4a 126 Revenge for the death of the mother
j4b 52 Revenge inside the family
j5 28 Brothers as victims
j50 28 An attempt to revive the victim
j50a 6 Sons embrace their mother
j50b 6 Father more dead than alive
j51 74 One piece is missing
j51a 19 Ladder made of bones
j51a1 17 Helpful girl is dismembered and revived
j51a2 6 The cut off finger instead of the chicken bone
j51b 4 One piece is missing: the revived Moon
j52 42 Two animal persons and their children
j52a 38 Bear as antagonist
j52b 21 Hare-woman or hare-children as heros
j53 23 The fawns and the cubs
j53a 16 To involve in a game and to kill
j53a1 12 A way of the revenge: to lure into the smoke and fire
j53b 13 The killed mother’s breasts
j53c 50 One of two female companions kills another
j53c1 8 The grizzly-bear and the black bear
j54 47 The last female survives
j54a 15 The calf and the tiger cub
j54b 24 Enemy of his mother, friend of his brother
j55 41 Unrecognized hero comes across enemies
j56 23 Father tests his sons
j56a 4 Transformed into griddles
j57 27 Son of the Sun
j58 82 The arrow ladder
j58a 8 Three magicians at the bank of a river
j58b 7 The sky door
j58c 10 Bridge of arrows
j59 85 Following arrow to get to the sky
j59a 26 Flight after the arrow
j59b 11 An arrow falls down, a dead one revives
j59c 6 To revive the dead with a whiplash
j59d 5 To revive the dead stepping over his remains
j6 38 Children of murdered woman grow up with her murderers
j60 15 Two-fold impregnation
j61 24 As light as a feather
j62 113 People turned into stones
j62a 14 People transformed into trees
j62b 8 Transformed into animals disenchanted
j62b1 4 The mistress of an island transforms men into animals
j62c 61 Sister asks her brother to obtain impossible
j63 13 Son saves, daughter betrays
j64 33 Person moves on clouds of smoke
j65 5 Sun’s children destroy the enemies
j66 52 The gnawed through bow-strings
j67 8 Stones on eyes
j68 7 Ever fresher dung on a path
j69 9 The mock and the real beheading
j6a 2 Woman is eaten up, her daughter escapes
j7 46 The changed signs
j7a 9 To bring a lunch for the father
j8 23 Feathers at the crossroad
j9 21 Unborn children talk from the womb
k10 166 Fight with the monstrous bird
k100 88 A faithful servant
k100a 63 Tobias
k100b 64 A grateful dead
k100c 49 Girl’s bridegrooms are bitten by a snake
k100d 25 Helpful animal becomes a prince
k100e 17 Aggressive stories
k100f 31 Youth lets the fish go
k100f1 48 The wild man
k100f2 29 After quenching his thirst, person breaks his chains
k100g 71 The son must be sacrificed
k100h 23 The gratitude test
k100i 6 Strong person who is made drunk is deprives of his strength
k101 57 Night dances of girls
k101a 43 The princess in the coffin
k101b 25 Three nights of suffering
k101b1 13 Black girl becomes white
k101c 5 In the palace by day, on the sky by night
k102 139 Woman associated with the hero conspires in favor of his enemy
k102a 19 Father was right
k102a1 19 The false grave
k102a2 114 Conflict between mother and son
k102a3 30 The tooth of death
k102a4 13 Wolf on the opposite bank
k102a5 37 To fill a vessel with tears
k102b 32 To ride for the last time
k102c 24 Changing his appearance, the hero returns magic object that was stolen from him
k102c1 15 Chip turns into duck
k103 133 Helpful cow
k103a 42 Tree raises its branches
k103a1 9 Tree moves after its mistress
k103b 28 Cow the spinner
k103c 9 Helpful bull fights in the forest of copper
k103d 35 To enter an ear of the horse, to take something from an ear of the cow
k104 5 A red swan
k105 5 Wonderful son and rat-children
k106 63 Thrown to cows
k107 134 Lost husband found
k107a 59 Iron shoes to be worn out
k107a1 61 Head of the household is asked to bring presents
k107a2 14 Shepard’s daughter instead of the princess
k107a3 43 The beauty and the beast
k107a4 14 Daughter asks to bring magic bridegroom
k107b 33 Not to light a candle
k107c 52 Knives on the windowsill (the prince as bird)
k107d 37 The girl cannot wake her fiancé
k107d1 29 Magic wife’s failed attempts to wake a youth
k107e 7 The long pregnancy
k107e1 4 Blood on the shirt
k108 59 A revived wife betrays her husband
k108a 3 After murdering his wife, the man loses everything
k109 7 A puppy turns into wife
k10a 14 Battle with a bird: a shelter
k10b 9 Cage carried away
k10c 8 Wrapped in guts
k10d 10 Bird carries man to an island
k10e 9 Rescued people
k10f 17 Nestlings turn into eagles
k10g 18 The man uses a fledgeling to descend to the earth
k10h 8 A bird feeds but does not release its prisoner
k10i 5 A tree that opens its trunk
k11 4 Eyes of a monstrous bird: metamorphosis
k110 15 Reflection of golden sword
k111 7 Animal suitors rejected, a man from the sky accepted
k112 16 Farm-hand revenges on the Sun
k113 74 The animal bride
k113a 47 To take wife where arrow falls
k113b 3 The frog-princess is the mistress of thunderstorm
k114 35 Brothers leave home after their sister is born
k115 46 Person saved thanks to the spider web
k116 16 Choice of companion
k116a 18 King is killed after putting on a strange attire
k116b 17 The girl in the box is replaced with ferocious dog
k116c 13 Father is persuaded to put his daughter into the box
k117 57 Woman who never laughs (a bride)
k117a 44 To make a mute woman speak
k117b 72 Stuck together
k117c 63 Magic fiddle makes people dance
k117d 36 Two bridegrooms in one bed with a princess
k118 120 The prohibited room
k118a 62 A portrait of an unknown beauty
k119 128 Animal helper marries a poor boy to a princess
k119a 83 The ungrateful master
k119b 25 Wild animals presented to the king
k119c 14 The Thunder king and the Lightning queen
k119d 25 Puss in boots
k119e 21 A success story of a miller
k11a 25 Feathers turn into birds or men
k11a1 22 Birds emerge from the monstrous bird
k11b 5 Reeds from bird’s bones
k12 287 Woman is lost and returned
k120 84 The averted incest (daughter and father)
k120a 58 The averted incest (sister and brother)
k120a1 44 Three dresses
k120a2 21 Not my mother but my mother-in-law
k120a3 38 Jewelry in a nut
k120a4 28 To fill a vessel with tears
k120a5 31 Luring a woman to a ship
k121 57 Wanderer at a crossroad
k122 49 Queen of the other world comes to identify the hero
k123 56 Old woman’s curse
k123a 42 A broken vessel
k123b 6 A broken distaff
k124 11 There was a greater wonder!
k125 41 House utensil betrays its master
k126 27 Wolf pays for the eaten up horse
k127 68 Brothers transformed into animals
k127a 23 Temporarily mute heroine
k127b 7 Brothers transformed into bulls
k128 70 Grazing animals to be preserved by a herdsman
k128a 22 Best apples for the princess
k128b 51 The rabbit-herd
k129 88 The disenchanted beauty
k129a 6 Half alive lady in the burial chamber
k12a 20 A strained bow
k12b 31 Husband of magic wife breaks her taboo
k130 51 Am I the most beautiful?
k130a 78 Girl in house of several brothers
k131 103 Men fight over magic objects
k131a 28 Hero settles argument of animals
k131b 62 Magic objects are exchanged and returned
k131c 2 The abducted woman escapes while the men are involved into shooting competition
k131d 41 Seven-league boots
k132 68 Invincible chicken
k132a 17 Husband's cock and wife's hen
k133 17 Foam-flecked horse
k134 24 The planted treasure
k135 116 Seven with one stroke
k135a 15 Coward expelled from his home
k136 12 A lad and his cattle
k136a 44 Girl’s hair picked up from a river
k136a1 14 Youth’s hair picked up from a river
k136b 20 Rubies from a river
k136c 20 Killed and revived periodically
k136d 8 Two flutes
k137 11 Sister tricks women to come and revive her brother
k137a 11 A girl in her brother’s guise gets a wife for him
k138 12 Exchange of bodies (king and his minister)
k139 14 Pheasant gets burnt
k13a 33 Person with cut off leg ascends to the sky
k13b 8 Leg bitten off by caiman
k13c 8 Ogress’ daughter avenges death of her mother
k13d 5 Leg hangs in the sky
k14 145 Precious advices
k140 9 Ostentatiously ungrateful
k141 17 Three injurious fairies
k142 59 Corpse buried many times
k143 8 Hero is a fowler
k144 23 The predestined death because of an animal
k145 23 The predestined death because of the wolf
k145a 10 Not the animal but its picture kills
k145b 12 The bride devours her bridegroom
k146 23 Life-medicine brought by the hero is used to revive him
k147 32 Hero's horse brings his remains and he is revived
k148 15 The stolen colts
k149 9 The three knots
k14a 51 Thrown into the oven himself
k14b 12 A charge of stealing the knife
k14c 60 Man mistakes his son for his wife’s lover
k14c1 5 Treasure in pomegranate
k14d 34 The make believe crime
k14e 46 The pretended inheritance
k15 9 Embraced nobody bsides this beggar
k150 14 Horse eats coals
k151 73 The fisherman and his wife
k152 67 The devil is frightened and runs away
k152a 46 The evil woman and the devil in one pit
k153 62 Grateful animals, ungrateful man
k154 16 A skull with an inscription
k154a 23 Men in the harem
k155 19 Prince grown up in seclusion
k155a 14 Bone in the meat
k155b 23 Climbing up to the girl by her hair
k155c 4 The virgin on the scales
k156 8 Will flowers wither undeer the pillow?
k156a 25 Tests to reveal the sex of a person
k156b 9 Dog helps the girl to remain unmasked
k157 58 Robbers killed one by one
k157a 42 Vanished husband recognized by keeping inn
k158 16 Who is the woman on a portrait?
k159 24 Peas poured under the feet
k15a 32 Substituted weapon
k15b 35 Substituted barrel of water
k15c 4 Substituted clothes
k16 70 To get access to a girl in guise of a bird or an animal
k160 40 Three hairs from the devil’s beard
k160a 71 Demon’s answers to his wife’s questions
k161 41 The liberated dragon
k162 17 The robber gets into the sleeping room
k163 61 Aladdin and his lamp
k164 31 Wife is not the best friend
k165 59 The youth who wanted to learn what fear is
k166 14 Forty girls
k167 11 The children's king
k167a 31 The son of the king and the son of the smith
k167b 3 How does the lamb in the ewe’s womb look like?
k168 36 An illusory life as long as a second
k168a 13 Food turns into cut off limbs
k168b 5 Man is made to believes he is a bear
k169 5 Pregnant doe
k16a 5 Slips and drops dummy
k17 81 The ornitomorphic suitor
k170 5 Water without frogs, land without flies
k171 11 Weaver creates ever new warriors
k172 5 Deaf bride without hands and feet
k173 60 Placidas
k174 50 Fingering thrown into a pitcher
k175 17 The wind blows the flour away
k176 358 A man in search of the woman
k176a 6 Wind dries the washing
k177 237 The travelling heroine
k178 24 The enchanted husband sings lullaby
k179 19 Bride purchased for her weight in gold
k18 119 Infant picks out his unknown father
k180 4 The time of wolf and the time of fox
k181 24 The horse from the cellar
k181a 3 To put the arm on the back of a horse
k182 5 The deceived defender
k182a 11 The sleeping defender
k183 12 In what fish is the swallowed one?
k184 3 When the forest will get in motion
k18a 13 Infant takes father’s bow and arrows
k18aa 37 Pregnancy because of the non-sexual contact
k18b 12 Baby boy does not cry anymore
k18c 11 Urinates at his father’s arms
k18d 65 A lazy boy and a fish
k19a 47 Star-wife
k19b 54 Star-husband
k19c 16 Non-human lover in man’s bed or bag
k19d 4 Star’s husband suffers from cold
k19e 13 Wolverine under a tree
k19f 5 Stars help to work
k19g 31 Two stars of different color and brightness
k1c 13 One who comes to look at adversary’s bones dies himself
k1d 7 Woman’s brothers maroon her husband
k1e 85 Marooned on an islet
k1f 197 Conflict because of a woman
k1g 7 Antagonist charged by stag
k1h 37 Imprisoned in the tree-hollow
k1i 13 Tree to descend from a rock
k1j 6 A marooned man returns home before his adversary
k2 255 The destroyed ladder
k20 70 Wish for star-husband or wife realized
k21 27 Woman gets to the sky and marries a sky-dweller
k21a 17 Woman returns from the sky
k22 40 Dwarfs and cranes
k22a 25 Dwarfs attacked
k22aa 6 Humans in the south, birds in the north
k22b 41 Man helps inhabitants of other world
k22c 10 Birds are attacked
k23 35 Battle with birds
k23a 6 Feathers are the birds’ weapon
k24 255 Stolen clothes of supernatural woman
k24a 45 Supernatural male hides clothes of human girl
k24b 23 To dance in her magic clothes
k24c 17 An old man helps to obtain the bird-wife
k25 503 Magic wife
k25a1 106 Magic wife finds her clothes
k25a2 14 Thrown down feathers
k25a3 6 The picked up feathers
k25a4 26 Escape from the mermaid
k25a4a 10 Saved from the underwater imprisonment (the cut through chain)
k25a5 7 Two brothers and the swan-maidens
k25a6 19 Magic wife does not forgive the unfaithfulness of the man
k25a7 9 Two brothers and the winged maiden
k25b 7 Woman pursues a porcupine and gets to the sky
k25c 10 Baby under a tussock
k25d 30 Prohibited bulb in the sky
k25e 75 Magic wife is an ancestor
k26 91 A hole in the firmament
k26a 14 Sky opening covered with a stone
k27 (motif is not in the correlation table) 546 Competitions and difficult tasks
k27a 17 Ordeal: survive cold
k27b 16 Ordeal: to smoke a pipe
k27c 28 Ordeal: knives and thorns
k27d 14 Ordeal: chamber with dangerous beings
k27e 144 Eating or drinking contest
k27f 124 The task: to get a woman
k27f1 55 To build a bridge
k27f2 12 To get an identical object
k27f3 4 To prepare a feather-bed
k27g 66 Ordeal: to bathe in a boiling liquid
k27g1 16 Cleaning of the stable
k27g2 7 The roof of feathers
k27g3 6 When one tree is felled, all the other fall after it
k27g4 43 To plow, to sow and to reap in one day
k27g5 22 The wooden axe
k27h 8 To represent the head that is permanently concealed
k27h1 17 To bring fruits
k27hh 140 To sort grain
k27i 9 Task: to dry a body of water
k27k 25 Diving contest
k27l 7 Water covered with ice
k27l1 11 To be frozen in the ice
k27m 35 To get an animal of unusual color
k27n 409 Difficult tasks of the in-laws
k27n1 276 Task-giver is a king or a chief
k27n3a 50 Task-giver is the Sun, Moon, Thunder, or Wind
k27n3a1 2 Hero’s rivals are the elements
k27n3b 66 Task-giver lives in the sky but is not the Sun, Moon, Thunder or Wind
k27n3c 46 Task-giver is a zoomorphic being
k27n3c1 8 Hero’s adversaries are polar bears
K27n3c2 7 The antagonist is father-in-law in guise of a bear
k27nn 101 Envious minister
k27o 43 Ball game
k27o1 25 Head used as ball
k27o2 12 To play with a dangerous ball
k27o3 36 Competition between two teams
k27p 36 Antagonist mourns loss of his helpers
k27p1 49 Antagonistic father-in-law acquires guise of an animal
k27p2 12 Antagonistic father-in-law acquires guise of a bear
k27q 85 Milk of the wild beast
k27q1 11 To bring musical instrument
k27r 62 To visit the world of the dead
k27r1 34 The burnt person proves to be unharmed
k27r2 40 The dancing apples
k27s 125 Contest: a race
k27ss 34 To win a race with an (old) woman
k27t 14 Climbing contest
k27u 74 Hide-and-seek
k27u1 17 One day from conception to birth
k27u2 6 News from the tumbleweed
k27v 9 To hit a bird with an arrow (stone)
k27v1 12 To hit a needle
k27v2 4 To hit an object of copper
k27v3 9 To shoot an arrow though the ring
k27w 47 Monster brought by the hero kills the task-giver
k27x 18 Former husband of magic wife
k27x1 27 Invisible servant (“Bring don’t know what”)
k27x2 47 To steal an egg from under the bird
k27x3 117 The man persecuted because of his beautiful bride
k27x3a 20 Recognition by magic wife’s towel
k27x4 15 Climb a tree with a full glass in hand
k27x5 80 Helpful persons of different age
k27x6 28 The Sun, the Moon and the Wind direct the hero
k27x6a 30
k27x6a 0 Person gets to the mother of the Sun
k27x7 44 Master of animals calls them together to question them
k27x8 11 The frog directs to the aim
k27x9 45 To bring an object from the sea bottom
k27xy 22 (Animal-)persons with different qualities in the camp of their adversaries
k27y 27 To get material for making bow and arrows
k27y1 9 Arrow points made of coal
k27yy 7 To come near a dangerous tree
k27yy1 23 To get feathers of a dangerous bird
k27yy2 6 To get a nestling of a dangerous birds
k27yy3 4 To get fruits of a dangerous tree
k27yy4 8 To get bark of particular tree
k27z 55 Game of chance for life and death
k27z1 54 Bird, horse and princess
k27z2 4 Princess separated from her son averted incest with him
k27z2a 6 A man and a girl who spent one night together
k27z2a1 5 Innocent woman is believed to be wanton
k27z2a2 44 Unrecognized wife visits her husband
k27z2b 35 The killed doll
k27z2c 6 Prince marries a girl to lock her up
k27z2d 12 An argument between female sparrow and her husband
k27z2e 7 The stolen jewelry and the final uniting
k27z2f 9 The biting doll
k27z3 51 Cat with a lamp
k27z4 22 The trained animal of the gambler
k27z4a 9 A cripple claims his leg back
k27z4b 16 Wife disguised as a man saves her husband
k27z5 24 An agreement to marry the would be born children
k27z6 32 The stone of pity
k27z7 21 To get know what is the rose of the heart
k27z7a 7 One who gets to know an intimate secret should die
k27z8 62 Insolvable riddles
k27z9 13 Why the fish laughed
k27zy 33 Hero between two ogresses
k27zz 26 The witch and the blinded queens
k27zz1 19 Only the youngest queen's child survives
k27zz2 6 All queens are blind, one is half-blind
k27zz3 12 A hole behind an apple-tree
k27zz4 7 The wife who should not be beaten
k28 200 Father or uncle is rival and enemy
k29a 194 Surviving in a fire
k29b 39 Posthole murder
k29c 10 Brings tree that was fallen on him
k29d 21 The drunk elephants
k2a 148 Hero marooned in the underworld
k2a1 14 Simple man gets to see how the princess has been abducted
k2a2 5 The abducted princess drops her shoe
k2a3 10 Hero marooned on a mountain
k2b 48 The Mountain-man and the Oak-man
k3 67 Tree or rock grows taller
k30 95 Flying enemy abducts woman
k30a 10 The chief’s wife and vultures
k30b 14 Abducted as soon as she went to the courtyard
k31 18 Wooden seal
k32 307 The false wife
k32a 54 Travelling man leaves his wife or daughter for a short time
k32b 5 Mother-in-law substitutes her daughter
k32b1 18 Mother substitutes her daughter
k32c 8 True wife turns into owl
k32d 45 Sister sent to feed geese, servant taken for the sister
k32e 12 The gold, the silver, the wood
k32f 7 Bird-son rescues his adopted mother
k32g 126 Punishment: torn apart by horses
k32g1 27 Forty horses or forty knives?
k32h 24 Punishment: buried alive
k32h1 15 Punishment: rolled down a hill in a barrel
k32h2 3 Wife eaten up by ants
k32h3 58 Punishment: burned alive
k32i 37 Two sitters at the bed of a sleeping prince
k32j 22 Sister replaced by an ugly girl, brother accused of deception
k32k 5 The false wife is a bug or a grub
k32l 11 Horses handed out among people to feed them
k33 199 Drowned woman remains alive
k33a 80 Younger brother transformed into animal
k33a1 32 Children born in a well
k33a1a 14 The heroine in the belly of a whale
k33a2 9 A witch distorts what was told
k33a3 11 The heroine is transformed into a turtle
k33a4 19 The heroine is transformed into a forest animal
k33a5 20 The heroine is transformed into duck
k33a6 22 They sharpen knives and boil water already
k33a7 25 The widower, his daughter or son and their teacher
k33a8 33 The heroine is transformed into a dove
k33b 38 Friends abandon a pretty girl
k33c 69 Girl from a fruit
k33c1 16 Transformed into lotus
k33c2 12 Girl from the pomegranate
k33c3 25 Girl from the orange
k33c4 8 Girl from the pumpkin
k33c5 6 Girl from the egg
k33c6 42 Only one girl is preserved
k33c7 17 One fruit with a girl inside
k33d 91 Peau d'asne
k33d1 26 The princess in the chest
k33e 50 Disappeared and returned children
k33f 21 Basin of honey and basin of oil
k33g 91 Fruits of two kinds
k33h 149 The cat, the dog and the magic object
k33h1 33 To exchange the old ring for the new one
k34 55 Fatal swing
k35 58 False husband
k35a 87 Hero brands his rivals
k35a1 41 Not to pick up a feather of fire-bird
k35a2 4 An animal with the shining hide
k35a3 32 The master becomes the servant
k35a4 18 Thrown into the sea
k35a5 8 Token to be shown to the protector
k35a6 9 The shining feather
k35a7 6 The fertile feather
k35b 17 The most delicious dish
k35c 35 Ogre in a well
k35c1 35 The best is one whom you love
k35c2 16 Man descends to the sea bottom
k35c3 26 The ship suddenly stops
k36 113 Bewitched into animal
k37 167 Recognition-test
k37a 64 To recognize a man
k37b 12 To recognize a woman by her missing finger
k37c 7 To recognize an object or an animal
k37d 8 Recognized by traces of teeth
k37e 5 The iron bird with three legs
k38 131 Hero helps the nestlings
k38a 39 White and black rams
k38b 103 The nestlings and the aggressive snake
k38b1 4 Bird steals colts, hero kills the serpent
k38b2 6 Birds carries hero to its place, hero kills the monster
k38b3 37 Hero takes care of nestlings
k38b3a 13 Hero feeds the nestlings
k38b3b 22 Hero warms and covers the nestlings
k38b3c 4 Hero protects sleeping ones from the sunshine
k38b4 15 Serpent comes out of the water
k38c 49 Bird brings the hero to his destination
k38d 94 Monster blocks waters
k38d1 64 A girl sacrificed to a dragon
k38e 86 Of copper, of silver, of gold
k38e1 27 Forest of metal trees
k38e2 30 The packed kingdom
k38e3 29 The diamond kingdom
k38e4 20 Palace of gold and silver bricks
k38f 155 The dragon-slayer
k38f1 60 The cut off tongues
k38f2 12 Stains of the dragon’s blood on the hero’s body
k38f3 2 The ambush from a pit
k38f4 80 Fire-breathing monster
k38f5 24 Fire-breathing horse
k38f6 23 The fire-creature
k38f7 36 Wild animals are hero’s dogs
k39 106 Man feeds his own flesh to a creature who helps him
k4 110 The bird nester
k40 20 One will be eaten today and another tomorrow
k41 78 Thunder against a serpent
k42 10 Bird-woman kills men (The loon-woman)
k43a 38 Compassionate person saves fire
k43b 24 Bird brings some meat
k43c 9 Dog unfastens children
k44 38 False mother rejected
k44a 16 Frog pretends to be mother
k44b 12 Returning after long absence, person throws food to his mother
k45 12 Sedna (fingers cut off)
k45a 7 Fingers turn into water animals
k45b 11 Woman turns into water animal
k46 8 Woman throws herself into the ocean
k47a 86 A woman and a dog
k47b 32 Dog turns into handsome man
k47c 3 Origin of dogs
k47d 11 Dog fulfills conditions of marriage
k48 49 Singing bird of the hero
k48a 11 Birds decorate hero’s attire
k49 48 Dead mother returns to nurse her baby
k5 11 The fake nestlings
k50 21 False wife beheads enemy
k51 32 The deceived wife
k51a 14 Woman pushes her rival into the boiling pot
k51b 14 The killed ones smile
k52 14 Rescue from the sea bottom
k52a 9 Slave pours water on fireplace
k52b 10 Broken adze
k52c 21 The flood in a dwelling
k52c1 7 Penis instead of a fish
k53 21 Animal skins as metamorphosis amulets
k54 33 Two giants
k54a 15 Cut tendons
k55 13 Chastity rewarded
k56 213 The kind and the unkind girls
k561 14 The wise carving of the fowl
k56a 48 The unworthy girl fails, the worthy one succeeds
k56a1 6 Mother-in-law helps the girl to fulfill a task
k56a2 27 If asked to do in a bad way, do otherwise
k56a2a 15 To wash herself in the red water
k56a2b 11 To bath lizards and bugs
k56a3 8 Not to fix laces on clothes and shoes
k56a4 43 Dog the messenger
k56a4a 17 The girl sends the demon to bring her new clothes
k56a4b 21 Yarn is gone with a wind
k56a4c 15 To wash something black making it white
k56a4d 7 Ash turns to flour
k56a4e 14 The unkind girl is burned
k56a4f 42 The unkind girl becomes ugly
k56a4g 16 The ugly girl: outgrowths on her face
k56a5 18 Old woman becomes a young beauty
k56a5a 9 Becomes young after being flayed
k56a5b 13 Any weather is good
k56a5c 8 Conversation with Months
k56a5d 13 Conversation with the Frost
k56a6 39 Food asks to be eaten
k56a7 24 Strawberries under the snow
k56a8 18 The girl swallowed by a boa snake
k56a8a 7 Kind girl returns with a handsome man
k56a8b 3 Girl’s hand in the snake’s den
k56a8c 5 The youth married to a dog
k56a9 41 Helpful mouse rings a bell
k56aa 5 Dog tests his bride
k56ab 10 Girl sheds her shirts, snake sheds his skins
k56ac 4 A row of stones and a row of logs
k56b 238 The worthy man is rewarded, the unworthy punished
k56b1 9 The old man with the live coals
k56b2 6 Jaws closed up
k56b3 2 Stench instead of fragrance
k56c 37 Golden axe
k56d 15 Broken leg of a nestling
k56d1 14 Treasure in a pumpkin
k56e 50 Two humpbacks
k56e1 19 Singers mention days of the week
k56f 31 To divide a chicken
k56f1 21 To divide several chicken
k56f2 19 One woman, two men and five eggs
k57 130 Cinderella
k57a 22 Beauty from Soap country
k57b 26 The girl’s shoe stuck to glue
k57c 29 A ring in the pie
k57d 18 Poky shoe, cut off toes
k57e 12 Young girl is provoked to kill her mother
k58 10 Construction of watercause
k58a 13 Water in exchange for love
k59 26 Box for Osiris
k6 22 Vine from body excretions
k60a 68 How strong are these bonds?
k60b 92 Invitation to coffin
k60c 20 Touchy with king, patient with stableman
k61a 30 To get know a secret
k61a1 10 Two heads in one bag
k61b 15 To get know names
k61c 51 To name a demon
k61c1 40 Listen in secret of demon
k61d 45 Hard work made her ugly
k61e 14 Reward for making a supernatural laugh
k61f 6 The make-believe daughter (son)
k62a 37 Quarrel of mouse and bird
k62a1 27 A man cures the wounded eagle
k63 15 Hunting wild people
k64 89 Escape from Polyphemos’ cave
k64a 81 Blinded cyclopes
k64b 33 Object sticks to person
k64c 7 The cyclopes is blinded by the smith
k65 33 Genii loci
k65a 39 Spirits fall from the sky
k65b 53 Humans and spirits
k65c 48 The various children of Eve
k65c1 18 Separating the rich from the poor
k65c2 5 Man and tiger among several sons
k65c3 12 Eve is ashamed to have many children
k65d 8 Wrong marriage ritual and the birth of spirits
k65e 48 Midwife in the underworld
k65e1 11 Midwife helps the toad-woman
k65f 26 With which eye do you see?
k66 175 Extraordinary companions
k66a 41 The land and water ship
k66b 23 Hero presents the received princesses to his companions
k66c 79 The bear takes human spouse
k66d 51 The bear’s (adopted) son
k67 24 Burned moccasins
k67a 69 A drowned wife
k67b 114 Bargain not to become angry
k67c 68 Skin ribbon ripped off from the back
k67d 53 Flight of the master with his goods in the bag
k67e 50 The woman as cuckoo in the tree
k67f 12 Slaughter any sheep that will look at you!
k67g 5 Smiling sheep
k67h 11 The bear in the cattle-shed
k68 11 Blood-clot defends his stepfather
k69 20 A visit to God
k7 8 “Like pubis of your wife”
k70 17 Two sisters-in-law: the girl and the frog
k71 12 Coyote first betrays and then saves his brother
k72 126 Three maidens
k72a 23 A ban to kindle any light
k73 206 Children of the youngest wife
k73a 177 Baby child substituted with object or animal
k73a1 29 Baby child substituted with inanimate object
K73a2 8 Baby substituted with a broom
k73a2a 6 Baby child substituted with a piece of wood
k73a3 8 Baby child substituted with a doll
k73a4 143 Baby child substituted with a pup
k73a5 43 Baby child substituted with a kitten
k73a5a 3 Baby child substituted with a monkey
k73a6 21 Children turn into trees
k73a7 30 The wonderful children: sister and her two brothers
k73a8 49 The wonderful children: brother and sister
k73a9 7 The speaking bed
k73b 77 Innocent woman punished
k73b1 43 Mother and child in a barrel
k73b2 3 To make kettle boil with a story
k73b3 6 Throw one nut as a keepsake
k73b4 21 To fill a bag with truth
k73b5 16 But the mother also could eat her baby up
k73b6 13 Hero flies to his mother’s enemies to listen to what they are talking about
k73b7 3 Hero saves magic wife from her enemy
k73c 25 A girl in a bird's nest
k74 148 Hero, his companions and a dwarf
k74a 102 Only the hero gets to overcome the demon whose track he then follows
k75 265 The youngest daughter is willing (The loathsome bridegroom)
k75a 66 Thrown apple hits the chosen one
k75a1 33 The youngest son-in-law should live in the stable
k75a2 44 The gardener
k75a3 27 The groom
k75b 25 Three melons from the three daughters
k75c 34 Seven years without washing
k76 160 A strange son
k76a 68 Frog as a marriage partner
k76b 74 Snake son and snake husband
k76c 22 Child the gourd
k76c1 19 Woman gives birth to a gourd
k76d 13 Son the hedgehog
k76e 16 Son (daughter) the pig
k76f 8 Youth the calf
k76g 8 Son the crab
k76h 11 Magic bridegroom threatens the girl’s father with disasters
k77a 107 Small objects and animals defeat the ogre
k77b 85 The animals in night quarters (Bremen town musicians)
k77b1 65 The wolf flees from the wolf-head
k77b2 20 The goat's weapons
k77b3 6 A goat with three bellies
k77c 106 Ones who hide in a house frighten dangerous enemy
k78 32 Extracted from finger
k78a 15 To cure a person, demon swallows him
k79 85 Snake serves an example of resuscitation
k80 120 Repetitive reincarnation
k80a 94 A bird or an object tell about a murder
k80a1 44 Bird tells about a murder
k80a2 67 Pipe tells about a murder
k80a3 16 One who picks up more berries is killed
k80a4 17 Person’s hair turns into grass
k80a5 8 A wild boar and the fratricide
k80a6 36 Speaking pipe made from a recently grown plant
k80b 59 My mother slew me, my father ate me
k80c 45 The cranes of Ibycus
k80c1 24 The tell-tale calf’s head
k80c2 50 The treasure finders who murder one another
k80c3 8 A name helps to reveal the murderer
k80c4 64 Mute witnesses of the crime
k80d 53 The stuck in pin
k81 110 The handless girl
k81a 21 The handless girl in the prince’ garden
k82 69 Evil sister-in-law
k82a 17 Pregnancy from the snake eggs
k83 129 The sons on a quest for a wonderful remedy for their father
k83a 15 Where your father has never been
k84 88 Sisters married to animals
k84a 25 To give a sister to the first male who comes marry her
k85 31 Horses-brothers
k85a 9 The thought-horse and the wind horse
k85b 20 Magic three-legged horse
k85c 9 The four-legged horse is faster than the three-legged one
k85d 18 A horse with a skin resistant to bites
k85e 30 The sea horses
k86 67 Weeping child stolen
k87 51 Marriage with an animal creates problems
k87a 10 A stolen boy
k87a1 10 Baby passed to the demon’s hands
k87b 10 Woman steps into bears’ dung
k88 136 The two travellers (Truth and Falsehood)
k88a 42 The blinded bride
k88b 62 Food exchanged for eyes
k88c 8 The dog’s blood is a medicine for princess
k89 16 A girl and a witch: presents of kinsfolk
k89a 7 In search of the place to abandon the sister
k89b 13 Brother abandoned in a tree
k89c 8 Helpful brother married to bear
k89d 23 Person hides turning into a needle
k8a 240 Jonah: swallowed by monster
k8aa 7 Jonah: swallowed by bird
k8b 6 Woman is soul of a whale
k8c 158 Jonah: swallowed by terrestrial animal
k8c1 31 First swallowed by herbivorous animal and then by wolf
k8c2 8 The swallowed mouse
k8c3 21 Not from your mouth but through your side
k8c4 37 Elk dies after swallowing mouse
k8c5 31 Bear dies after swallowing mouse
k8d 66 Jonah: swallowed by anthropomorphic being
k8e 52 Getting inside via anus
k8f 4 Deer in monster’s belly
k9 15 God’s wife thrown down from the sky
k90 34 The black and the red ones
k90a 10 Trying to hit the black serpent a man hit the white one
k90b 12 Stag antlers stuck in serpent’s throat
k91 30 The invisible battle
k92 71 King Lear
k92a 68 The princess responsible for her own fortune
k92b 63 Love like salt
k92c 23 Wife is weaving, husband is selling
k93 93 Twin brothers and a woman
k93a 52 Sword of chastity
k93b1 47 Conception from eaten fish
k93b2 90 Conception from eaten fruit
k93b3 54 Boys, colts and puppies are born the same day
k93b4 14 Woman, mare, and bitch birth give birth to human boys
k93b5 12 A stratagem: hero turns into pup or kitten
k93b6 17 The sword that grows in the garden
k94 112 Bird of luck (eaten up head)
k95 78 The twining branches (united in death)
k95a 14 Thorny bush between roses
k96 91 Fifty sons
k97 31 Now you are grieved as I was
k98 45 (Animal) helper turns into household
k99 79 Prophecy of future sovereiniy
k99a 47 The father will humble himself before the son
k99a1 53 Smart man is rescued from prison
k99a2 17 The sold dream
k99a3 33 The happy dream: Sun, Moon and stars
k99b 37 Eloping with the wrong man
k9a 3 Punished person is hanged between heaven and earth
l10 16 Sharp tail
l100 75 Transformation flight
l100a 11 A pursuer throws ahead the transformed fugitive
l100b 58 Forgotten fiancée
l100b1 30 Dialogue between the male and the female pigeons
l100c 30 Duped visitors of a chaste woman
l100d 103 The entrapped suitors
l100d1 10 Mollah in the baby cradle
l100e 40 The lover, the husband and the guest
l100f 44 Guest runs away from the host
l100f1 40 Lover runs away from the husband
l100g 36 The goose with one leg
l101 28 Pieces of clothes thrown to pursuer
l102 15 Escape from animal husband
l102a 5 Escape from the sea-gull husband
l103 119 Obstacle flight (Atalanta type)
l103a 6 Relatives do not open the door for the girl
l103b 27 Animals carry hero away from a demon
l103b1 8 A spurt of dung into the pursuer’s face
l103c 12 A dog tries in vain to defend its masters against the ogres
l104 146 Fugitive and pursuer change guises
l105 46 Invisible missile
l106 53 Lost object claimed back
l106a 22 Stomach cut open
l106b 80 Journey to the other world in search of the lost object
l107 38 The ear-sleepers
l108 162 The wolf and the kids
l108a 65 Goat kills the antagonist
l108b 62 The thin voice
l108b1 27 A smith makes the voice thin
l108b2 5 Ants make the voice thin
l108c 31 The white hand
l108d 12 Stones sewed up in the belly
l108e 12 Children of the mother-fox
l108f 4 Lured from river-bottom
l108g 3 To wash a black one
l109 26 The cannibal gourd
l10a 27 Demon comes to hunter’s camp-fire
l11 62 Turtle-bench
l110 145 The devourer
l110a 4 The injured ear
l110b 6 Stomach devours an oak tree
l110c 14 Artificial child
l111 18 Hook from the sky
l112 19 Complete body obtained
l113 68 The ogre bridegroom
l114 65 The youngest one saves siblings from demon
l114a 35 A child who stays awake
l114b 70 To bring ogre's property
l114b1 38 A task: to bring the ogre
l114c 103 To exchange clothes with ogre's daughters
l115 19 Perfect gentleman
l116 21 Singing girl in a bag
l116a 33 Doe with golden horns
l117 11 Unwanted companion
l118 92 Caught in a split log
l118a 16 To cut his throat imitating a man
l118a1 5
l119 4 Battle in the air
l12 5 Vultures and incomplete body
l120 36 Snake-women turn into apple-trees
l120a 25 Tongue of dragoness and the smith’s pincers
l120b 12 Fighting hero is waking his brothers
l121 31 Demonic woman marries hunter to kill him
l121a 7 The hunter’s secret
l122 19 Riding a cock
l122a 6 Stitching up cracks in the earth
l123 5 Running in many directions
l124 10 Treacherous gift of a demon
l124a 13 The cutting girdle
l125 48 Demonic wife recognized
l125a 8 Thirsty demonic wife
l125b 14 Spouse who eats the dead
l126 34 The bird indifferent to pain
l127 6 Dancing ears
l128 16 You are Deo but I am Mahadeo
l129 21 Why so big teeth? (Little Red Riding Hood)
l129a 15 A person asks, the wolf gives explanations
l13 75 The reared up monster
l130 12 One eye for three persons
l131 23 Your house is on fire! (all versions)
l131a 13 Your house is on fire! (appeal to a demon)
l131b 10 Your house is on fire! (appeal to a bird or ladybird)
l132 4 The theft of food: a family conflict
l133 5 Limbs put aside
l134 10 The third wave
l135 34 The Traveller
l14 80 Reared up serpent
l15a 113 Vulnerable place on the body
l15a1 40 Achilles' heel
l15a2 7 Made invulnerable but not the entire body
l15b 10 To kill with a reed
l15b1 4 Deer horn is a weapon against the evil
l15c 21 Hero lies and remains unharmed
l15c1 23 The antagonist is defeated because he tells truth
l15d 226 The external soul
l15d1 42 The feigned location of soul
l15e 45 Hero’s life in his sword
l15e1 6 The sword thrown into a lake
l15e2 6 What happened when you had thrown the sword into the lake?
l15f 13 Heroine’s life in her necklace, ATU 412
l15g 19 A burned piece of wood (Meleagros)
l15g1 3 Knowing the secret of his family member, person kills him
l15h 87 The external soul: three or more objects one inside the other
l15h1 47 Person’s soul is in the egg
l15h2 22 Person’s soul is in a bird
l15h3 9 Person’s soul is in an insect (worm)
l15h4 5 Person’s soul is in a needle
l15i 20 Life in hairs
l16b 8 Eyes on the body
l17 16 Face on breast
l17a 31 Eyes on the back of the head
l17a1 34 One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes
l17a2 4 Rival woman with the odd number of eyes
l17b 68 Two faces
l18 75 Multi-headed bird
l19a 92 Beings with even number of heads
l19b 232 Beings with odd number of heads
l19b1 81 The seven-headed monster
l19b2 54 The nine-headed monster
l19b3 33 The twelve-headed monster
l1a 41 Woman turns into the bear
l1b 20 Bear-woman and her sister
l1b1 29 Demonic woman and her brothers
l1c 12 Fugitives turn into stars
l1c1 13 An escape to the sky
l1c2 8 Hidden under the hearth
l1d 6 Woman kills jaguar
l1e 7 Person creates monstrous birds
l1f 11 Sister avenges her lover
l20 23 Eater of the raw meat
l20a 11 Eater of parrots
l21 18 Cannibal’s attention diverted
l22 47 The sound sleep
l22a 30 People become blind
l23 48 Proteus
l23a 8 Transformation into the fire
l23b 16 Transformation into the spindle
l23c 17 To break an object in two
l23d 36 Metamorphosis of the caught female person
l23e 11 Metamorphosis of the caught male person
l24 48 Monsters suffocated
l25 14 Demonic girl sucks brains
l26 7 Massacre of the initiated boys
l26a 3 Massacre of the spirits
l27 39 Girl eaten up
l27a 17 One is eaten up, another escapes
l28 63 The snake-eater
l28a 16 Eating of snake meat triggers flood
l29 13 Fish from a forest pool
l3 59 Husband turns into demon
l30 16 Eating of snake meat triggers thirst
l31 32 People stick to monster
l31a 6 Children carried away to the sky
l31b 16 Reptile carries people into the water
l32 15 Gluttonous stone
l33 37 Rolling stone
l33a 17 Rock pursues stealer
l33b 14 Trickster provokes a rock
l33c 10 Rock crashes trickster
l33d 7 Hero defeats monstrous rock
l33e 15 Presented blanket
l33f 11 Goatsucker breaks Rock
l33g 6 Rock with a beard
l34 45 The burning hair
l35 11 Demon’s hand broken
l36 18 Woman attacks man who climbs a tree
l37a 142 To get know causes of problems
l37a1 25 Wolf should eat a fool
l37a2 37 Who will become the ferryman
l37b 177 Secrets accidentally overheard
l37b1 32 Toad under a stone
l37b2 6 The overheard secret: a snake inside a person
l37b3 12 The magic medicine is in the body of a bird
l37b4 8 The magic medicine is in the body of a dog
l37c 41 Bad and Good Lucks
l37c1 38 Luck (good or bad) as a person
l38 65 Demon’s trap
l38a 33 A sticky trap
l39 97 Hero is compelled to descend from a tree
l39a 9 Demons from the underworld
l39b 6 The doughnut tree
l39c 10 Quickly grown fruit tree
l39d 23 To pass an apple from hand to hand
l3a 5 Woman asks for assistance
l4 112 The unmasked murderer (The Blue Beard)
l40 109 Reflection and shadow
l40a 6 Woman takes reflection of a youth for her own
l40b 28 Absurd actions to lure person out
l40c 3 Pays for the bridle and claims the camel
l41 143 Hero escapes on the way
l41a 53 Stone in basket
l41a1 14 The broken cauldron
l41b 10 Pitch basket
l41c 7 Children caught when sliding down a slope
l42 223 Hero carried to ogre’s home
l42a 12 Ogre steals corpses
l42b 81 Credulous children of the ogre
l42b1 7 Ladder of pots and pans
l42c 15 Now in, now outdoors
l42d 8 Ogre’s tongue frozen to ice
l42e 48 Caught again
l42f 6 Prisoner escapes, wife is killed
l42g 83 Hansel and Gretel
l42g1 42 Chops are heard, woodcutter is gone
l42g2 20 Birds destroy the trace
l42g3 18 Edible house
l42h 8 Ogres who come to a feast devour the host
l42i 15 Sister sets out to save her little brother
l42i1 15 The witch and the fisher-boy
l42j 6 Tree bends down (mice in the ogre’s bag)
l42k 6 Ogre coughs up an axe
l43 46 Dangerous persons eat filth
l44 43 Show me your head!
l44a 15 Give me your liver
l44a1 12 The louse-tortoise
l44b 19 The blind got his sight, the lame got his legs
l45 35 Duped watchman
l46 59 Head downward
l47 25 Enemy moves backward and dies
l48 40 Demons devour their comrades
l49 26 Body parts falling down
l4a 16 The meat answers its master
l4b 31 The stain of blood is impossible to wipe off
l50 32 Cliff ogre
l51 8 Victims thrown to water creatures
l52 43 Hero escapes from top of a tree
l53 132 Stones into the maw
l54 15 Lake coming to boil
l55 27 Monster killed with hot liquid
l56 52 Fire in monster’s belly
l57 37 Person gets his body part back
l57a 84 Hero's body part is returned by his companion
l57b 18 Demon comes to get his body part back
l58 25 Avaricious man
l59 18 Avaricious woman: metamorphosis
l59a 8 Stuck to a whale
l5c 93 Rolling head is a dangerous monster
l5d 10 Head is thirsty
l5e 4 Wife’s headless body pursues her husband
l5e1 11 The demonic woman pursues her children
l5f 33 Helpful skull
l5g 6 Elder sister’s head rolls after her younger sister
l5h 5 Person stuck in an opening, head is torn off
l6 95 Demon clings to person
l60 7 Picked up baby-demon
l61 55 Endocannibal
l62 12 The Stone man
l63 15 Person eats with vagina or anus
l64 45 Removable head
l65 71 Demonic baby
l65a 59 The cannibal sister
l65a1 23 Horse’ legs eaten off
l65a2 9 The shot off finger
l65b 158 Dogs save their master
l65b1 17 To exchange sheep for dogs
l65b2 23 Dogs with the meaningful names
l65b3 163 The escape on the tree
l65b4 12 Tooth as an axe
l65b5 8 Hero’s dogs at the princess’ marriage party
l65c 7 Cannibal elder sister
l65d 22 Younger sister of cannibal woman
l66 26 Tunnel under the monster
l67 20 Monster’s hair gnawed off
l68 51 Two companions in the night
l69 11 Puma rescues man from a monster
l6a 26 Sticking demon asks to be carried
l7 37 Chasing an animal by mistake
l70 128 Fruit falls and kills
l71 12 Tip of a branch
l72 286 The obstacle flight
l72a 128 Comb becomes a thicket
l72b 54 Whetstone becomes a mountain
l72c 32 Obstacle flight: the thrown mirror
l72d 12 Obstacle flight: the thrown scissors
l72e 24 Pursuer goes back to take his axe
l72e1 12 Pursuer is hiding his axe
l72f 5 Obstacle flight: the thrown entrails
l72g 24 Obstacle flight: the thrown salt
l72h 26 Obstacle flight: the thrown fire-stone
l72i 16 Obstacle flight: the thrown soap
l72j 9 Obstacle flight: the thrown awl (needle) turns into many awls (needles)
l72k 6 Obstacle flight: the thrown bottle with oil
l73 63 Ogre tries to drink a river dry and bursts
l73a 8 Darkness behind, light ahead
l73a1 19 Obstacle flight: fog created
l73b 7 Drawing a line on the ground
l73c 38 A towel opens or blocks the pass
l74 14 The returned hand
l74a 12 Hung over fire
l75 11 Flint kills his mother
l76 4 Ogress devours testicles
l77 7 Girl seen as a fruit eaten up
l78 21 Toad-jaguar
l79 14 Two co-wives, human and monstrous
l7a 16 Sticking demon: first to person and then to animal
l7b 4 Chasing a gourd-vessel by mistake
l80 12 A drop of blood
l81 135 Demon’s fire
l81a 23 Cat brings a misfortune
l81a1 5 Red bead in the hearth
l81a2 35 Demon comes to drink blood of a girl
l81a3 7 Demon with a golden spoon
l81b 19 Hero’s legs are cut off
l81c 26 Feetless, handless and blind
l81d 10 Two cripples fight and become healthy
l82 11 The burned off foot
l83 8 Incomplete body turns into thunder
l84 12 Unfit axes
l85 179 One-sided people
l85a 40 One-sided child
l85b 9 Woman gives birth to disfigured child
l85b1 17 After coming to the sky, the lad gets a normal body
l85c 19 Half-chicken
l85d 6 One leg and one arm: the injured ploughman
l85e 2 Person is temporary split in two
l85e 30 One-leg people
l86 24 Demonic mother pursues her children
l87 20 Taste of blood
l88 9 Ogre returns to life
l89 16 One secretly feeds another
l9 109 Sharp body members
l90 52 Mouth from the earth to the sky
l90a 27 House on a bird's leg
l90b 6 Teeth reaching the sky and the earth
l90c 8 Horns reaching the sky and the earth
l90d 3 Lips nailed to the sky and the earth
l90e 16 Heads on stakes
l91 7 Long serpent
l92 28 Feigned suggestion to help the ogre
l93 16 Axe thrown into the water
l93a 169 Helpful fox
l93b 31 Helpful rabbit
l93c 10 Helpful monkey
l94 165 Child promised to demon
l94a 35 Caught by his beard
l94b 64 Give me what you do not know at home!
l94b1 28 Demon puts the spilled treasure back into bag
l94c 4 Son or daughter to be sacrificed
l94d 3 A tale of a tail
l94e``` 10 White wolf
l95 22 Coming back to pick up toys
l95a 13 Floating lungs
l95b 36 Parents collaborate with a demon against their child
l96 92 Sold in animal’s guise and comes back
l96a 33 Oh, dear!
l96b 28 The yogi boiled in his own pot of oil
l96c 17 What did you learn? – Nothing
l97 10 Persons rooted to the ground
l98 54 Cannibal owl
l99 14 Bring me a spit to roast you!
l9a 43 Sharp leg
l9b 22 Elbow-knives
l9c 15 Sharp breast
l9d 13 Sharp hands
l9e 12 Copper nose
l9f 10 Golden nose
l9g 7 A man with a blue beard
m10 19 A girl and a honey
m100 31 Sleep at the edge of a cliff
m100a 6 Fire at the edge of a cliff
m100b 13 Jump from a cliff
m101 15 Some are afraid of men, and some of partridges
m101a 65 Animals learn to fear men
m101b 36 Three men: the former, the future, the present one
m102 21 Person lets his leg or head to be cut off
m103 13 Children with pretty spots
m104 76 Make believe killing of kinsfolk
m105 50 Make believe killing of mother
m105a 32 Make believe killing of children
m105a1 4 Make believe killing of children: two birds
m106 125 Meaningful name
m106a 34 “Myself” and “Nobody” in demon’s house
m106b 13 “Last year” in a demon’s house
m106c 13 My name is “For the Guests”
m106d 7 My name is "Son-in-law"
m106e 46 For the long winter
m106f 93 A guest from the paradise
m106g 55 The cow is taken to the roof to graze
m106h 35 Holding down the hat
m107 13 Turtle bites penis off
m108 13 Trickster carries away people's property
m108a 15 Trickster as an adopted child
m108b 6 The helpful woodpecker
m109 130 The tail-fisher
m109a 7 To sit on the ice waiting for food
m109a1 49 Sham brains
m109b 58 Sick animal carries the healthy one
m109c 5 The tail is quietly tied
m109d 2 Caught by tail by the sea creature
m11 131 The unclean food
m110 47 The forgotten liver
m111 16 Monkey on the banana tree
m112 79 Animals dig a well
m112a 22 Turtle catches the thief
m112b 13 Animals build a road
m113 53 For certain bird water is taboo
m113a 7 Bird sees blood instead of water
m114 76 Rope of sand
m114a 24 Clothes of stone
m114b 88 Not clothed and not naked
m114b1 40 What is the fattest, sweetest, swiftest?
m114b2 9 How many steps made your horse?
m114b3 14 Cloth from a handful of yarn and loom from three sticks
m114c 18 To protect from rain by his own body
m114d 50 The boiled eggs: eaten last year
m114d1 23 The boiled eggs: chicken should hatch tomorrow
m114e 15 To tether a horse to the summer
m114f 6 A crooked chimney
m114g 9 The camel is high, the goat has a long beard
m114h 9 To build a house in the air
m114i 64 Asked about their relatives, girl or boy answers with wit
m114i1 8 Throwing away the killed ones, bringing home the unnoticed ones
m114j 25 All women are similar
m114k 14 Water which is not from the earth and not from the sky
m115 21 The eaten up wolf
m116 89 Wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom
m116a 61 Ungrateful son reproved by naive actions of own son
m116b 3 Monster who pursues people and a wise old man
m117 13 Head under wing
m118 107 Source of values is destroyed imprudently
m118a 62 Forty thieves and jars with oil
m118b 17 Repository inside a cow
m119 28 Demonstrated many times
m11a 9 Fish extracted from body
m11b 4 Meat extracted from body
m11c 83 Person gets lard from his body
m11d 6 Salt extracted from body
m12 43 The unlucky hunter
m120 69 Cannibal baby-sitter
m120a 18 Cannibal mourner
m120b 20 Baby-sitter with a nice voice
m120c 9 Shared children
m121 6 Louse as a spy
m122 26 Advisers inside
m123 23 Raven marries goose
m123a 7 Three-toed foot
m123b 6 Trickster tied to a boat
m123c 17 Unlucky flight with migratory birds
m123d 11 Raven the filth-eater
m124 100 A bull’s tail
m125 20 Eating his own eyes
m126 16 The speaking skull
m127 53 Lost tail of the fox
m127a 71 The quail makes the fox laugh
m127b 26 A jug as a trap
m127c 17 Frightened without reason
m128 34 Speckled animals
m129 12 Lost primogeniture
m13 74 The short-sighted wish is granted
m130 10 Fox and bird in one hole
m130a 21 A bird helps an animal to escape from the snare
m130b 7 Traitor killed instead of a victim
m130c 47 The mouse and the lion (the help of the weak)
m131 72 Biting tree-root
m132 6 Ears as sandals
m132a 6 Ears, not horns
m133 7 Wind saves situation
m134 59 A tower of wolves
m134a 23 Blowing the house in
m134b 15 Wolf measured by tailor
m134c 54 The wolf overeats in the cellar
m135 32 Wolf and two rams
m135a 69 The wolf's reverses
m135b 45 Wolf regrets for being so stupid
m136 40 Sickle as an unknown beast
m136a 52 Sunlight carried in a bag
m136b 64 Cutting off the branch
m136c 61 The man takes seriously the prediction of death
m136d 78 The air castles
m136e 14 It is good that pumpkins do not grow on a big tree (St. Peter and the nuts)
m137 33 The weak predator imitates the strong one
m138 36 Human and animal life spans are readjusted
m138a 5 The lifespan of one hundred twenty years
m139 5 The released birds
m13a 10 Transformed into stone
m140 93 The theft of fish
m140a 9 The fox ties his companion
m140b 4 The wolf decorates a bird
m141 24 Animals in a pit
m141a 8 And the Mouse? For us he is nobody
m141b 44 The animals flee in fear of the end of the world
m142 35 Fox blames his tail
m143 60 Fox in a well
m144 30 The wasp nest as king’s drum
m144a 7 Burning thatch on the back of a tiger
m144b 9 Tiger was scorched, thence his stripes
m145 62 The lion in a well
m146 38 The fox gets bait from trap by luring wolf into it
m147 6 The fox runs in front of the tiger
m147a 14 Foxes will meet at the bazaar
m147b 16 The fox rids himself of fleas
m148 14 Animal agrees to be eaten up
m149 52 Tell them that I am a stump
m149a 20 Treaty with the tiger
m149b 10 Dogs inside
m14a 11 Roasted alive
m15 8 Tied to a tree
m150 26 The deceitful herdsman`
m151 38 Hello, house!
m152 106 Why only one wolf?
m152a 70 Animal tied to another for safety
m152b 24 Brave donkey and cowardly lion
m152c 7 The donkey and the lion crossing a river
m152d 8 The elephant is saved from the tiger’s grip
m152e 8 Whose voice is louder
m152f 3 The one whose voice is lowest, should be eaten
m153 96 Letter on the hoof
m153a 22 The washed pig
m153b 14 Wolf rides a horse
m154 114 The animal language and the stubborn wife
m154a 43 A donkey induces overworked ox to feign sickness
m154a1 10 A pregnant wife on a pregnant mare
m154b 56 The man who does his wife's work
m155 6 Sleeping parent covered with a cloak
m156 177 The ungrateful one returned to captivity
m156a 42 Objects that give the answers
m157 170 The impossible giving birth
m157a1 80 Father is giving birth
m157a2 95 Bull or cart gives birth
m157a3 36 To milk a bull
m157a4 71 To fish on a hill
m157a5 17 The golden mortar
m157a6 63 You imagine that you speak with the abbot
m157b 72 To take the one thing she holds dearest
m157c 15 You are hens and I am the cock
m157d 14 Pulling up a turnip
m158 93 Tops or buts
m158a 39 Dividing the harvest (The unjust partner)
m159 63 The lion’s share
m16 48 Ugly or sick one becomes healthy and handsome
m160 30 Unkind words are more painful than wound
m161 44 A dog in the bag
m162 40 Eating his own innards
m162a 6 Cuts off his genitals
m162b 4 Sour sap into the bear’s eyes
m163 69 The precious cat
m163a 14 What cats feed on?
m163b 23 Father’s heritage brings fortune
m164 31 All tracks going into the den and none coming out
m164a 17 Stinking mouth of the lion
m165 38 Fur coat for the wolf
m166 66 Piece among animals
m167 39 A tiger taken for a bull
m167a 31 A tiger who is afraid of Twilight
m168 58 More cowardly than the hare
m168a 19 The master taken seriously
m168b 3 A crooked stick
m169 61 Medicine for the sick lion
m16a 33 Diving bird’s medicine
m17 43 Woman lies that man missed
m170 72 Pilgrimage of the animals
m170a 7 Sinful camel and pure wolf
m170b 5 Rim of a pot around the neck
m171 138 The profitable exchange: from a pea to a horse
m171a 77 The profitable exchange: getting a girl
m171b 15 Shoulder-blade with no meat
m171c 19 In exchange for a thorn
m171c1 12 In exchange for a bast-shoe
m171d 10 The profitable exchange: gets a drum
m172 19 The hare makes the lion his horse
m173 5 Pretending dead several times
m173a 41 The thief drops matched objects
m174 14 Eats from behind
m175 6 A dead lion behind the hyena
m176 30 A test: to jump across an obstacle
m177 33 But he had no heart at all
m177a 9 Guilty is the one who is silent
m178 49 The lying goat
m179 26 A house of bark and a house of ice
m179a 46 The owner driven out of his house
m179b 11 Guest makes the house unfit for its owner
m17a 12 (Grand-)mother deceives her blind (grand-)son
m17b 26 Wife deceives her blind husband
m18 60 Stolen arrows and hooks
m180 84 Fox and crane invite each other
m180a 12 The unwashed monkey
m181 28 Two companions go to a feast
m181a 13 Fire at the sunset
m181b 8 How spider became to live under the roof
m182 63 The tarbaby
m182a 17 Wild animals stick to horse
m182a1 15 Captured wild animals ransom themselves
m182b 30 The wild animals on the sleigh
m183 140 A race: one against many
m183a 3 Eating contest: one against many
m184 32 The slow one is ahead of the sleeping one
m185 81 On the tail of the fast one (animals)
m185a 99 On the tail of the winner (all versions)
m186 12 Race competition: a fish and an animal
m187 42 Snail is a participant of the race
m187a 14 Swimming match of the fish
m187b 19 The swiftest runner must receive the harvest
m187c 32 A crab is a participant of the race
m188 17 The painted jackal
m188a 8 Jackal the king
m189 11 To thread a spiral shell
m18a 16 Getting arrows
m18b 38 Getting fishing hook or harpoon
m19 10 The bait-person
m190 7 The beaver and the porcupine
m191 47 Cat and wild animals
m191a 41 Belling the cat
m191b 30 Ingratitude and injury are hard to forget
m191c 17 The singing wolf
m192 15 Trapped in the animal hide
m192a 8 The dried up straps
m193 15 Flight inside pumpkin
m193a 35 The fleeing pancake
m194 8 Traveler’s possessions divided
m195 23 Two horses: which is older?
m195a 26 Which end of a stick is a butt?
m195b 6 The three dolls
m195c 37 Smart or lucky one solves problems
m196 73 The silence wager
m196a 15 Corpses that became to speak
m197 57 The effectiveness of fire
m197a 40 The pot has a child and dies
m197b 15 The neighing stallions and the mares who foaled
m197c 22 Sham physician: using the flea powder
m197d 8 The shortened stick
m197e 44 The unknown animal
m197e1 12 Demons claims the harvest
m197f 13 The black beard and the grey head
m198 83 Wise brothers (the king is bastard)
m198a 60 Wise brothers (the strayed camel)
m198a1 20 The eldest: it is round, the middle: it is hard, the youngest: it is a nut!
m198a2 10 Rubin with a flaw
m198a3 37 Who did steal the ruby?
m198a4 30 Which was the noblest act?
m198b 103 The pretended astrologer
m198b1 7 Crab by name, the astrologer
m198b2 42 Grasshopper by name, the astrologer
m198b3 8 Roof of the mosque falling in
m198b4 21 The pretended diviner: names of the thieves
m198b5 6 Pretended diviner overhears a talk
m198b6 6 Toad or Frog by name, the astrologist
m199 90 Squeezing the (supposed) stone
m199a 16 Extracting brain from the earth
m199b 44 Not a stone but a bird is thrown
m199c 50 Throwing a club
m199c1 19 Throwing contest
m199d 52 Wrestling and running contests
m199d1 8 Climbing contest (ogre and squirrel)
m199e 25 Carrying the horse
m199f 34 Pulling the lake together
m199g1 43 Carrying a tree with an ogre
m199g2 3 Carrying a thorny pole
m199h 23 The disemboweled ogre
m199i 37 Screaming or whistling context
m199j 13 Awl thrust into giant’s neck
m199k 41 A man makes believe that he is going to bring an entire well
m199l 17 Hero shows his enemy how well he can jump or fly
m199m 6 It’s my granny’s spindle whorl
m199n 38 Counting out pay
m199o 22 Making a hole in a tree
m1a 5 Caiman ferries the Pleiades-brothers
m1b 9 Caiman/crocodile ferries a monkey
m2 10 Riding down a tree
m20 15 Trickster’s jaw injured
m200 41 The miller, his son, and the donkey
m201 5 The oak and the mushroom
m202 79 Thorn removed from lion’s paw
m203 34 Great Pan is dead
m203a 4 Tell them that I am dead
m203b 5 The cat is related to the world of spirits
m204 46 Money gets one who is destined to get it
m204a 7 One does not see money because he closes his eyes
m205 7 Birds set a city on fire
m206 45 One half of the gift
m207 35 The mouse in the jug
m21 175 A protector hides fugitives
m21a 19 Under false cause of illness
m21b 8 Every deception is the beginning of the next one
m22 44 Helpful stock
m22a 7 Stock guardian
m23 143 Mock plea
m23a 4 “Soak me before eating”
m24 23 Turtle’s war party
m24a 11 Turtle kills a woman
m25 15 Banquet in the sky
m26 10 Ducks rise hunter into the air (he caught them by leg)
m26a 26 Ducks rise hunter into the air (threaded on a string)
m27 54 Coming back from the sky
m28 66 Icarus (failed attempt to fly on artificial wings)
m29a 81 Trickster-raven
m29a1 37 Raven (crow) is the main trickster
m29b 394 Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote
m29b1 187 The wolf is a failure
m29b2 185 The bear is a failure/enemy
m29b3 126 The fox (jackal, coyote) is a failure
m29c 12 Trickster-jay
m29d 9 Trickster-mink
m29e 16 Trickster-skunk
m29f 30 Wolverine is a failure
m29g 193 Trickster-hare or rabbit
m29g1 115 Hare or rabbit as the main trickster
m29g2 27 A crab wins thanks to his smartness
m29gg 36 The hedgehog wins thanks to his smartness
m29h 14 Trickster-owl
m29i 13 Trickster-hawk
m29j 12 Trickster is a water bird
m29k 163 The turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) wins thanks to his smartness
m29k1 Not used in statistics 52 The turtle (toad, frog) is a tricky failure
m29l 26 Trickster is an opossum
m29m 17 Trickster is a rat
m29n 12 Trickster is a mouse
m29nn 7 Trickster is a ground squirrel
m29o 51 Trickster is a monkey
m29o1 53 The monkey is a failure
m29p 23 Trickster is a spider
m29q 9 Trickster is a racoon
m29qq 10 Trickster is an anteater
m29r 18 Trickster is a porcupine
m29v 36 The duiker (mouse-deer) wins thanks to his smartness
m29w 53 Jaguar (ocelote, puma) is a failure
m29w1 54 The leopard is a failure
m29w2 94 The tiger is a failure
m29w3 117 The lion is a failure
m29x 63 The hyena is a failure
m29x1 9 Trickster is a badger
m29y 9 Trickster is a wren
m29z 25 The Beardless
m29z1 34 The Bald-headed
m29z2 15 The Gipsy wins thanks to his smartness
m29z3 23 The Gipsy is an enemy or a failure
m3 50 Chain of animals
m30 237 Trickster falls down
m30a 9 Person defecates on a trickster
m30b 24 Birds give and take back their feathers
m30c 42 Flying person falls down after breaking taboo
m30d 27 The tortoise lets itself be carried by birds
m31 8 Trickster thrown into the water
m32 29 Anus opened
m32a 9 Eating pieces of flesh that fall out
m33 21 Anus closed
m34 11 Thrown object turns into tail
m35 8 Cold enduring competition
m36 12 Dismantles himself to crawl through an opening
m37 5 Blow of axe
m38 211 Stupid imitation (all versions)
m38a 141 The bungling host
m38a1 26 Imitating wife’s kinfolk
m38a2 4 The hen cooks her eggs
m38b 34 Stupid wives imitate magic one (the daughter of the Sun)
m38b1 18 Young wife is mute until her husband pronounces particular words
m38b2 18 Three daughters-in-law at the king's banquet
m38b3b 0 Hero warms and covers the nestlings
m38c 48 Superb blacksmith
m38c1 43 Old people forged into young ones: unhappy imitation
m38c2 13 Cuts the horse’ leg off to iron it
m38c3 9 Old woman transformed into monkey
m38d 57 Animated objects perish one after another
m38d1 12 Neck like a hair
m38d2 30 The bean, the straw and the coal
m38d3 11 Clod of earth melts away
m38d4 4 Needle, the hunter
m38d5 9 The grains talk with one another
m38d6 28 Bursting from laugh
m38d7 10 Sausage is a cook
m38e 11 The mushroom reviles the young oak
m39a 33 Fool takes off boots from animals’ legs
m39a1 112 Misunderstood instructions: a step behind
m39a2 19 Fool puts a needle into the hay
m39a2a 10 A fool buys spoons and a table
m39a2b 9 A fool salts the river
m39a2c 45 The sowing of salt
m39a2d 5 Planting of meat
m39a2e 3 The forgotten name
m39a3 56 Had your daughter horns?
m39a3a 8 The oiled ground
m39a3b 8 Fool cares for tree-stumps
m39a4 25 Fool and his shadow
m39a4a 70 Fool’s customer is an animal or an object
m39a4b 10 Fool’s customers are frogs
m39a4b1 6 Foolish woman throws her yarn away
m39a4c 11 Conversation of the fool with a bird
m39a4d 4 Fool’s customer is a lizard
m39a4e 25 Fool’s customer is a tree
m39a4f 13 Fool’s customer is a statue
m39a4g 10 Fool’s customers are dogs
m39a4h 12 The lost camel of the king
m39a4i 13 Fontanelle of a baby
m39a5 7 Fool kills goats for eating pears
m39a5a 78 The sausage rain
m39a5a1 12 The chicken army
m39a5a2 6 One-eyed judge
m39a5a3 19 Devils beat the landlord
m39a5b 30 Husband discredited by absurd truth
m39a6 33 Misunderstood instructions: to cut a road
m39a6a 22 Clever daughter-in-law of the imprisoned khan
m39a6a1 12 The harvest is eaten up? The corpse is alive?
m39a6b 8 A leaned tower and the builder’s daughter-in-law
m39a6c 27 King the craftsman
m39a6d 60 A coded message
m39a6f 29 To sell a sheep and to bring the sheep and the money
m39a6g 53 Four coins (The sharing of bread and money)
m39a6h 39 Plucking geese
m39a6i 35 Answer betraying a theft
m39a6j 7 This house has no ears
m39a7 20 Misunderstood instructions: to wash with the boiling water
m39a8 41 A fool carries a door on his back
m39a8a 36 Fool drops an object from a tree
m39a8b 11 The cut off tongue of a robber
m39a9 14 Soup with parsley and onions
m39b 9 Fool attacks his own dwelling
m39b1 14 Paddling in both directions
m39c 73 Pumpkin sold as a donkey’s egg
m39d 66 Series of clever unjust decisions
m39e 30 What sort of a tree?
m39e1 39 The eaten up iron and the kidnapped child
m39e1a 24 The iron-eating mice
m39e2 11 The speaking tree
m39f 55 He had a hat, had he a head?
m39g 61 Girl bewails the loss of her child before she has any (Clever Elsie)
m39g1 31 Jumping into the breeches
m39g2 15 Shoveling nuts with a pitchfork
m39h 60 Husband pretends to become blind (The faithless wife)
m39i 34 The treasure of the hanging man
m3a 32 Counting water animals
m3b 4 Hare’s tail is cut off
m4 13 A wrong step
m40 98 The distorted instructions
m41 53 The eye-juggler
m42 97 Eyes: taken out of orbits and lost
m42a 24 Eyes of berries
m42b 21 Eyes of gum
m42c 5 Animal person eats his own marrow
m43 30 Doll as a decoy
m44a 6 Thieves of food: the first people
m44b 47 Thieves of food: the women
m44c 31 Thieves of food: a young hero
m45 30 A predator tricks animals to gather around him
m45a 47 Old man and animals
m45b 3 An old man carrying a kneading trough
m45c 9 To plant the boiled tubers
m46 63 The false baby
m46a 28 A stratagem: the picked up baby
m46b 38 A stratagem: baby born by woman
m46c 28 Swallowed conifer-needle
m46d 31 Child cries for a toy
m46e 22 The Sun as a toy
m47 16 Head put to bottoms
m48 13 Trickster turns into buffalo
m49 85 Man in a skin of another
m49a 44 The substituted medicine-woman
m5 81 Provoked insult
m50 34 Man follows stars
m51 52 Meat in a tree
m52 30 Butchered carcass
m53 56 Hoodwinked dancers
m53a 6 Raven and seals
m53b 16 Bag with songs
m53c 17 Red eyes
m53d 16 Would believe enemies
m53e 7 Would believe evil omen
m53f 3 Disguised trickster eats up all the food
m54 10 Runway awakes in the same house
m55 5 Sprinkling hot coals
m56a 16 Alligator’s secret
m56b 12 To bring tears and skins
m56c 4 To measure a snake
m56d 7 To fill container with flies
m57a 157 Beads discharged from the body
m57a1 33 Flowers blossom where she puts her feet
m57a2 89 Male person is the producer of valuables
m57a3 93 Female person is the producer of valuables
m57b 16 Sweat of the Sun and tears of the Moon
m57c 134 Gold producing animal
m57c1 9 Gold-producing bear
m57d 134 Beat, cudgel!
m57d1 41 Bird presents objects and fulfills wishes
m57d2 24 Tree grants a wish
m57d3 23 Wind grants a wish
m57d4 11 Frost grants a wish
m58 13 Plant or trail saves from fire
m59 27 Treacherous rider kills ferry animal
m59a 17 Porcupine waiting for ferryman
m5a 30 Passengers of the sinking canoe
m5b 19 The ungrateful passenger
m5c 4 The hairy octopus
m5d 5 The squirrel the creeping fish
m6 15 Night with a partridge
m60 42 Sham doctor: finished off enemy
m60a 58 A hunter comes to one whom he wounded
m60a1 13 Herdsman explains how to ferry
m60a2 15 False servant licks soles
m60a3 4 Sham doctor: punishment of a scoundrel
m60b 42 False doctor: a finished off victim
m60b1 3 The crow eats up the fish
m61a 9 To obtain valuables, quarrel provoked
m61a1 4 Person provokes a quarrel between two birds
m61a2 5 Person provokes a quarrel between two stones
m61a3 4 Person provokes a quarrel between two fish
m62a 53 Quarrel provoked by action [not in correlation table]
m62b 20 Trying to hit the hero hit each other
m62c 28 Pulling a rope
m62d 6 Hare in rotten hide
m62e 5 One field and two workers
m62f 9 Every next assistant kills previous one
m63 47 Body parts enumerated
m64 15 Person pretends to possess resources
m65 29 Trickster jammed, meat stolen
m65a 21 Squeaking tree
m65b 28 The lost quarry
m66 23 Itch after artichoke eating
m66a 8 A hill of excrements
m67 11 Trickster gone with a wind
m68 10 Breaking wind scares game
m69 17 Getting fast in an animal skull
m6a 12 Overnight with the fire in the forest
m6b 6 Coming across aguti before reaching home
m7 22 Hero waiting to be picked up
m70 14 An elder person poisons a younger one with intestinal gas
m70a 15 Old woman is pierced through
m71 16 Picked up piece of wood
m72 18 Hand in animal’s anus
m73 32 Exchanged excrements or vomits: who is stronger
m73a 22 Exchanged excrements
m74 22 Vomits compared
m74a 83 Strange names of the babies
m74aa 77 Theft of food by playing godfather
m74ab 11 Fox in a boat
m74b 50 Who has eaten up the fat?
m74c 3 Handsome like a woodpecker
m74d 35 Who ate the lamb’s heart?
m74e 3 To divide the cheese biting from both parts
m75 73 Valuables taken off the vultures
m75a 11 Revenge for falling from the sky
m75b 52 Hero inside carcass
m75b1 94 Marco the Rich
m75b1a 58 The predestined wife
m75b2 13 Bird tries to avert predetermined marriage
m75b3 6 The Trojan Horse: victory over enemies
m75b4 36 The Trojan Horse: gaining of the woman
m75c 50 Treasure on mountain top
m75d 9 Vulture’s knife
m76 4 Person climbs a tree, leg is cut off
m77 57 A soiled bed
m78 108 A tiny boy (Thumbling)
m78a 12 Tail-boy
m78b 13 Too many children
m78c 14 Cut-off finger-boy
m78d 16 Pea-boy
m78e 4 Ear-boy
m78f 19 A planted empryo
m78g 10 Tied together while being asleep
m79 7 Dancing with reeds
m7a 7 Left in the water
m7a1 8 Celestial bodies move above the hero
m7b 11 The last one is chosen
m7c 6 The helper is eaten up
m8 107 Breaking the obstacle
m80 19 Quail scares trickster
m81 99 Blind persons
m81a 12 Blind duck-women cured
m81b 10 Not to climb after an arrow stuck in a tree
m81c 22 Blinds met in the sky
m81d 32 Blind persons cured
m81e 39 Not to graze animals on the ogre's land
m81e1 28 The hero brings to the old man his stolen eyes
m81e2 5 Attracting persons and animals from a distance
m81f 21 Blind robber paid back
m82 9 Animal person ties rattles to its tail
m82a 4 Rattles tied secretly to the tail
m83 85 Who is older?
m83a 15 Crying for his dead children
m83b 60 Whose dream is better?
m83c 8 Who becomes drunk easier
m84 100 Revived from bones
m84a 48 Goat resuscitated
m84b 28 Bones thrown into the water
m84b1 15 A journey to the land of the fish
m84b2 3 Birds eaten up and revived
m84c 13 Guest of bush spirits
m84d 6 Conversation of trees
m85 100 The fox bluffs
m86 20 Rock punishes trickster
m87 21 Invisible ghosts
m88 7 Involved into dance
m89 38 Melted wax
m89a 5 Horns of hyena
m8a 58 Birds peck a rock to release prisoners
m8b 7 Birds break an obstacle to get water
m8c 8 Eyes cleared out
m8d 10 Birds break body covering
m9 29 Stuck in a tree hollow
m90 60 Snake gives a correct answer of what material the object is made
m90a 51 To marry a man who would give a correct answer
m90a1 65 The louse skin
m90a2 11 From what did the plant grow?
m90a3 7 Tree grows from snake
m90a4 32 The tree of gems
m90a5 57 The golden apples
m90a6 15 Apples of immortality
m90b 10 The sunrise in the West
m90c 7 Ladder instead of wife
m91 149 The killed corpse
m91a 83 Simulated killing (a bag with blood)
m91b 61 The sold ashes
m91b1 81 The sold skin
m91c1 160 Herd from the river bottom
m91c2 187 Put into the bag
m91c3 43 Hare the messenger
m91c4 32 Pot that does not need fire to cook
m91c5 48 The wager that sheep are hogs
m91c6 22 Hat alleged to be magic
m91c7 26 Tell them that I have died
m91d 16 The drowned shaman
m92 5 Red eyelashes
m93 33 Body part as a guard
m93a 23 Guard punished
m94 30 Sliding downhill
m94a 13 Sliding downhill: victims of antagonist
m94a1 18 Sliding downhill: animal tricksters
m94b 18 Wolf in a basket
m94b1 10 Wolf under the mill wheel
m95 64 To bring a present for person's kin
m96 9 Imagined guests
m97 26 The blind is directed by trees
m97a1 9 The blind person asks trees their names to get the new eyes
m97a2 13 The blind person asks trees their names to find his was to the water
m98 49 Who are more numerous?
m99 41 Intention to exterminate birds
m99a 23 Palace of birds bones
m99a1 8 Holes in the birds' beaks
m9a 12 Transformed into tree-frog
n1 13 Initial formula: when Altai was but a small tussock
n10 46 The transparent body
n10a 18 The transparent bones
n10b 24 The transparent neck
n10c 9 Inner organs are seen through the body
n11 27 As snow and blood
n12 6 Cloak of beards
n13 10 Girl is the scissors
n14 64 Storyteller on the wedding
n15 34 It ran down onto my moustache, but didn’t get into my mouth
n16 13 The ice horse
n17 8 The paper clothes
n18 11 Gifts are taken away
n19 4 Still limping
n2 12 Initial formula: when a goat was a colonel
n20 28 They attained their desires
n21 11 The Dough-strong man
n22 27 If they are not dead, they are still alive
n23 13 They stayed there, and I came here
n24 14 Like another Moon
n25 3 The length of a needle as a long distance
n26 4 When wheat grew on the ice
n27 47 The milk of birds
n27a 14 You can find even bird’s milk there!
n27b 22 The only thing missing is bird’s milk
n27c 17 The bird has no milk
n28a 29 The roots of rocks
n28b 8 Ladder to the sky
n28c 6 Pillar of the sky
n28d 5 Lid for the sea
n28e 4 Bridge across the sea
n28f 4 Water has no boughs
n28g 8 Horse has no gall
n28h 4 Horse has no horns
n29 14 Before the water starts to boil
n3 23 Hungry fingers
n30 32 Crying while looking in one direction and laughing while looking in another
n31 4 Birds leave for the South
n32 7 Sitting on several trees
n33 40 Pressing adversary into the ground
n34 22 Honey and oil
n35 12 Milk river with kissel banks
n36 11 Above the forest, below the clouds
n37 6 Covering himself with the sky like a blanket
n38 22 Which key is better
n39 3 The three-ply rope
n4 20 Ribs with no intervals
n5 19 They recognize winter by rime, summer by rain
n6 13 Horse tells to whip him strongly
n7 14 Three apples
n8 16 Storyteller instead of a cannonball
n9 4 Who is coming?