When a guest comes, a host hides from him a cooked chicken. When the host is going to eat it himself, he finds the chicken transformed into the tortoise (origin of tortoises) or a toad

There is an anthropomorphic patron or patroness of wolves. Usually he or she gives instructions to wolves on particular day of the year

When person or creature shakes himself or itself, shakes his or her bed, clothes, plucks birds, etc., snow falls down to earth

Hazel-grouse was big and dangerous. He is torn to pieces which are shared between other birds and animals. What remains is the present grouse

Certain bones in the body of living creatures (usually birds and fish) are arrows that were shot into them

Bones of fresh-water fish are result of a fighting or military expedition. The bones are arrows that have pierced the fish bodies (gill openings are pierced by arrows) or the small bones are fragments of originally big ones

Particular pieces of flesh or inner organs in the bodies of animals, birds, or fish originally belonged to other creatures

Person (his/her head) who was abandoned in a tree or falls on a tree turns into a nest of insects

Trees (and animals) could talk and asked people not to cut or kill them

Person (a devil or a bear) thinks that because the Cornus mas tree (European cornel, male cornel) blossoms before all other fruit trees do, it also brings its fruits early. The cornel fruits become ripe very late, so the person is disappointed and gets no fruits