The first people or first anthropomorphic divine beings descend to earth from the sky.
Thunder looks like a quadruped mammal (pig, buffalo, camel, anteater, tapir, dog, cat, leopard, monkey, etc.)
Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
Person or creature has another pair of eyes (or one eye) on the back of his head or (rare) on his back
An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes
An (animal) person gives a signal (special song, etc.) to his relative or friend who lets him or her in. Antagonist imitates the person's voice or guise and the relative lets him in
To make himself unrecognizable by the victim, a predator or ogre modifies his throat or tongue mechanically (oils or burns it, asks blacksmith to remake it, etc.)
In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit
To demonstrate that the thief who had eaten food supplies is somebody else or to declare somebody else as a victim to be eaten up, animal person smears his sleeping companion with remains of the food or body excretions (exchanges the excretions)
Trickster pretends to be dead, sick or weak and is picked up by those who carry something edible in a cart (sledge, boat, bag, etc.). The trickster secretly eats the food, often after throwing it out of the cart (sledge, etc.)
(Animal) persons agree to jump across a brook, hole, fire or other obstacle or to walk upon a log, a rope and the like. One or all of them fall down
The (animal) person threatens another to beat him and sticks to him with all his limbs in succession. Usually it is a figure smeared with some sticky substance that the person takes for somebody alive
In most of the episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit. Not considered are traditions in which 1) trickster hare/rabbit is rare while other trickster (usually fox/jackal/coyote) typical; 2) Mesoamerican traditions in which episodes with trickster rabbit are not many and could be borrowed in post-Columbian time being of African origin
Cunning rabbit or hare saves person, helps him or her
Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the hyena suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
An ogre or a stronger animal catches a man or a weaker animal or drives him into a small enclosure and goes away for a time leaving a watchman. The hero dupes the watchman, escapes. (Most, though hardly all American cases can have post-Columbian African origin)
Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the lion suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
Cesarean operation upon a woman at childbirth as a custom
A small animal (mouse, rat, rabbit, opossum, a bird) explains a woman how she can deliver her child in a natural way
First human beings have no mouth, anus or genitals, their women do not know how to give birth