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