Marvels

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• Remarkably long, hooked nose. F543.1.3
• Remarkably large nose. F543.2
• Nose turned upside down. F543.3
• Remarkable nostrils. F543.4
• Remarkable mouth. (Cf. F513, F531.1.4, F531.1.6.2.) F544
• Remarkably large mouth. F544.0.1
• Mouth opens so wide that lungs (gullet) may be seen. F544.0.1.1
• Man's mouth, from fear of sea-monster under lake, "distended to both his ears." F544.0.2
• Mouth of man emits flames when open for speech. F544.0.3
• Mouth open to drink for forty days. F544.0.4
• Remarkable lips. F544.1
• Upper lip curls over nostril; lower hangs down to neck. F544.1.1
• When sad, man lets one lip fall to stomach; other makes hood over his head. F544.1.2
• Lips on side of face. F544.1.3
• Lips used as a spear. F544.1.4
• Remarkable tongue. F544.2
• Golden tongue. F544.2.1
• Long tongue. F544.2.2
• Long tongue cut out and used to bridge a stream. F544.2.2.1
• Tongue with hair growing from it. F544.2.3
• Tongue with thorns. F544.2.4
• Remarkable teeth. F544.3
• Golden teeth. F544.3.1
• Teeth of angered saint give off sparks. (Cf. F552.1.2.) F544.3.2
• Luminous tooth of saint. F544.3.2.1
• Blue teeth. F544.3.3
• Blue, protruding teeth of one and a half elbow-length. F544.3.3.1
• Saints' teeth last for 300 years. F544.3.4
• Remarkably long teeth. F544.3.5
• Tooth travels automatically. F544.3.6
• Other facial features. F545
• Remarkable beard. F545.1
• Beardless man. F545.1.0.1
• Blue beard. F545.1.1
• Green beard. F545.1.1.1
• Golden mustache. F545.1.1.2
• Beard projected over beams of great hall. F545.1.2
• Beard grows through table. F545.1.3
• Beard shelters fifty men from rain. F545.1.4
• Bearded woman. (Cf. T321.1.) F545.1.5
• Enormously fat woman with beard. F545.1.5.1
• Beard travels detached from owners. F545.1.6
• Remarkable forehead. F545.2
• Gold star on forehead. F545.2.1
• Horns on forehead. F545.2.2
• Man with inscription on forehead. F545.2.3
• Man with forehead of iron. F545.2.4
• Remarkable cheek. F545.3
• One cheek white, other red. F545.3.1
• Yellow, green, blue, purple spot on cheek. F545.3.2
• Face covered with long moss. F545.4
• Remarkable breast. (Cf. F232.2, F441.2.1.2, F460.1.2, F531.1.5.1.) F546
• Breast broad and made of glittering metal. F546.1
• Woman with three breasts. F546.2
• Star (cross) on breast. F546.3
• Thorns around nipples. F546.4
• Woman with breasts hot enough to cook food. (Cf. F593.) F546.5
• Milk in man's breast. F546.6
• Remarkable sexual organs. F547
• Toothed private parts. (Cf. F547.3.3.) F547.1
• Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina. F547.1.1
• Hermaphrodite. Person with both male and female sexual organs. F547.2
• Hermaphrodite pygmies. F547.2.1
• Extraordinary penis. F547.3
• Long penis. F547.3.1
• Penis that eats and drinks. F547.3.2
• Toothed penis. F547.3.3
• Penis tatooed with name of God. F547.3.4
• Man's genitals hidden in his body. F547.3.5
• Penis cuts down trees. F547.3.6
• Extraordinary clitoris. F547.4
• Extraordinary vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) F547.5
• Removable vagina. F547.5.1
• Enormous vagina. F547.5.2
• Eye in vagina. F547.5.3
• Double vagina. F547.5.4
• Vagina as bag. F547.5.5
• Vagina in forehead. F547.5.6
• Vagina in armpit. F547.5.7
• Saw in vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) F547.5.8
• Hair in vagina which becomes a mantis. F547.5.9
• Woman with privates like dog's. F547.5.10
• Remarkable pubic hairs. F547.6
• Remarkably long pubic hair. F547.6.1
• Enormous testicles. F547.7
• Remarkable legs. F548
• Pointed leg. F548.0.1
• Person with black knee. (Cf. F527.5.) F548.1
• Person with white knee. F548.1.1
• Remarkable feet. (Cf. F517.1.) F551
• Animal foot on human being. F551.1
• Man with snake-like feet. F551.1.1
• Person with horse's foot. F551.1.2
• Woman with horseshoe on one foot. F551.1.2.1
• Man with dog's feet. F551.1.3
• Feet with unusual number of toes. F551.2
• Remarkably pretty white feet. F551.3
• Remarkably ugly feet (and hands). F551.4
• Single-footed people lie on their backs and shade themselves from sun with their soles. F551.5
• Remarkable hands. (Cf. F515, F531.1.6.7, F551.4.) F552
• Hands with unusual fingers. F552.1
• Hands with unusual number of fingers. F552.1.1
• Fingers of saint (angel) give light or fire. (Cf. F544.3.2.) F552.1.2
• Extraordinary fingernails. (Cf. G11.11.1.) F552.1.3
• Human fingers not separated. F552.1.4
• Milk from finger. F552.1.5
• Remarkably strong hands. (Cf. F610.) F552.2
• Remarkably pretty white hands. F552.3
• Marvelous hand without wrist. F552.4
• Person remarkable as to his blood. F554
• Person with pink fluid in place of blood. F554.1
• Person with extraordinary amount of blood. F554.2
• Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.) F555
• Gold hair. F555.1
• Person with hair partially golden. F555.1.1
• Silver hair. F555.2
• Very long hair. F555.3
• Hair recedes into head. F555.3.0.1
• Nude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva). F555.3.1
• Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her. F555.3.1.1
• Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spot. F555.3.2
• Hair so long that girl can cover herself with it. F555.3.3
• Rapid growth of hair as protection against being seen nude. F555.3.4
• Very thick hair. F555.4
• Multi-colored hair. F555.5
• Person with three heads of hair. (Cf. A526.4.) F555.5.1
• Man has drop of blood on end of each hair. F555.6
• Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day. F555.7
• Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled. F555.8
• Hair above heart so stiff it rends five garments. F555.8.1
• Hair so curly that nuts falling on it would be held. F555.9
• Hair emits sound. F555.10
• Remarkable voice. (Cf. X937). F556
• Voice made rough by swallowing hot iron. F556.1
• Voice made smooth by swallowing hot iron. F556.1.1
• Voice made smooth by having ant bite tongue. F556.1.2
• Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
• Voice changed by medicine. F556.3
• Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. F556.4
• Removable organs. F557
• Removable brain. F557.1
• Man covered with horn. F558
• Double-skinned tribe. F558.1
• Remarkable physical organs – miscellaneous. F559
• Person with jointless bodies of bone. F559.1
• Long navel. F559.2
• Extraordinary excrement. F559.3
• Excreta is so fiery it starts great fires. F559.3.1
• Remarkable skull. F559.4
• Skull has words miraculously written on it. F559.4.1
• Remarkable neck. F559.5
• Neck as hard as ivory. F559.5.1
• Extraordinary stomach. F559.6
• Stomach attains immense proportions by overeating. F559.6.1
• Remarkable heart. F559.7
• Person with three hearts. F559.7.1
• Adder grows in heart of man. F559.7.2
• Extraordinary urine. F559.8
• Person's urine melts rocks. F559.8.1
• Unusual manner of life. F560
• People of unusual diet. F561
• People who prefer raw flesh. F561.1
• Ichthyophages. People who live on fish. F561.2
• People who live on coconuts. F561.3
• Person lives by smoking tobacco. Never eats. F561.4
• Girl eats only kola nuts and tobacco. F561.5
• Woman fed by bees' dropping honey into her mouth (lie). F561.6
• Boy drinks perspiration. F561.7
• Iron-eating tribe. F561.8
• People of unusual residence. F562
• Boy lives on ox. Never walks on ground. F562.1
• Residence in a tree. F562.2
• Residence in (under) water. F562.3
• Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
• Boy lives in ant-hill. F562.5
• Person never sleeps. F564
• Person of diabolical origin never sleeps. F564.1
• Semi-supernatural person sleeps little. F564.2
• Person does not sleep for many months (years). F564.3
• Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) F564.3.1
• Person sleeps for three days and nights. F564.3.2
• King sleeps for six days and acquires after that magic wisdom. F564.3.3
• Person sleeps for nine months. F564.3.4
• Spirit woman sleeps through whole year; eats through the next. F564.3.5
• Twelve years' sleep customary to demons. F564.3.6
• Man sleeps with one eye and one ear open. F564.4
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Amazons. Women warriors. F565.1
• Amazons cut off left breast of daughters so that they can handle bow. F565.1.1
• All male children killed by Amazons. F565.1.2
• Queen takes husband's place in battle. F565.1.3
• Remarkably strong women. F565.2
• Parliament of women. F565.3
• Women hunters. F565.4
• Celibate peoples. F566
• Village of men only. F566.1
• Country which no woman may enter. F566.1.1
• Land where women live separate from men. Cohabit with water monsters. F566.2
• Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast. F567
• Wild woman. (Similar to wild man.) F567.1