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• Totemistic gods. Gods which have animal associations; e.g., Athena with the owl, Venus with the sparrow. A113
• God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati). A122
• Goddess has team of sparrows. A136.2.1
• God represented with arrow of flames. A137.14.1.1
• God's arrows. A157.2
• Cupid with arrows of lead and gold. A475.0.1
• Divine twins make selves a bow and arrow. A527.1.1
• Slave shoots arrow into leg of sun's horse. A732.2.1
• Stars from arrows shot at sky. A763.1
• Spring from roots of sacred tree when arrow is shot into it. A941.7.2
• Contours of land caused by occult hero driving harrow. A951.3
• Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.) A955.2
• Origin of bows and arrows. A1459.1.1
• Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter. A1614.4.3
• Why Palmyrenes have narrow eyes. A1666.2
• Creation of sparrow. A1927
• Ant thrown from heaven: hence narrow waist. God decides dispute between ant and spider in spider's favor. (Cf. A2355.1.2.) A2214.2
• Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice. A2271.2
• Why zabi's eyes are narrow: because he laughs so hard. A2332.3.2
• Color of sparrow. (Cf. A2218) A2411.2.1.11
• Why crow cannot enter sparrow's nest. A2431.3.6.1
• Sparrow's nest. A2431.3.7
• Why sparrow may build nest near people's houses; reward for hospitality. A2431.3.7.1
• Friendship between hen and sparrow. A2493.34.1
• Why sparrow is disliked. A2522.1
• Why khijur leaves are long and narrow: split with an arrow. A2741.5
• Cat leaps through man like arrow of fire and burns him to ashes. B16.1.1.2
• Speaking sparrow. B211.3.7
• King of sparrows. B242.2.7
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Wedding of lark and sparrow. B282.3.3
• Wedding of sparrow and another bird. B282.10
• Helpful sparrow. B451.7
• Dragon swallows arrow (thunderbolt) intended for hero. B529.2
• Tabu: grumbling at narrowness of certain boat. C881.1
• Transformation: man to sparrow. D151.8
• Transformation: chain of arrows to bridge. D469.3
• Magic object taken from barrow. (Cf. E461.1, F352.) D838.5
• Magic arrow. D1092
• Magic arrow makes five wounds. D1092.0.1
• Arrows returned upon those who shoot saint. D1093.1.1
• Sorcerers use marrow of corpses' bones. D1278.2
• Divination by magic arrow. (Cf. D1092.) D1311.17.2
• Magic arrow indicates desired place. (Cf. D1092.) D1314.1
• Magic arrow shot to determine place to lodge for night. D1314.1.1
• Magic arrow shot to determine where to build city. (Cf. D1314.4.) D1314.1.2
• Magic arrow shot to determine where to seek bride. D1314.1.3
• Magic arrow indicates place to build church. D1314.1.4
• Arrow shot to determine burial place. D1314.1.5
• Arrow shot into air discovers iron pit. D1314.1.6
• Arrow shot to discover direction of attacking army. D1314.1.7
• Magic arrow locates lost person. (Cf. D1314.1.ff.) D1315.1
• Magic arrow locates fish. (Cf. D1092.) D1327.1
• Hercules' bow and arrow essential to capture Troy. D1400.1.4.5
• Magic arrows annihilate army. (Cf. D1092.) D1400.1.4.7
• Magic arrow kills. (Cf. D1092.) D1402.7.5
• Arrows rubbed with black chicken fatal. D1402.7.5.1
• Magic arrow summons water-spirit. (Cf. D1092.) D1421.2.1
• Magic arrow pursues victim. (Cf. D1092.) D1438.2
• Magic transportation by arrow. (Cf. D1092, D1526.1.) D1520.13
• Magic arrow flight. Man keeps ahead of arrow which he shoots. (Cf. D1092.) D1526.1
• Magic arrow shakes heavens. (Cf. D1092.) D1549.1
• Magic arrow sets fire to whatever it hits. (Cf. D1092.) D1566.1.1
• Automatic arrows. (Cf. D1092.) D1601.30
• Arrow shot at bull returns to shooter. (Cf. D1092.) D1602.16
• Speaking arrow. (Cf. D1092.) D1610.9.2
• Arrows shake when master is disturbed. (Cf. D1092.) D1612.6.2
• Unerring arrow. (Cf. D1092.) D1653.1.5
• Arrow can be moved only by owner. (Cf. D1092.) D1654.4.2
• Invisible arrows. (Cf. D1092.) Visible to one person alone. D1655.1.1
• King who finds golden bow and arrow (spindle) knows an heir will be born to him. D1812.5.2.9
• Enemy's last arrow made to appear crooked so that he does not use it, and adversary gets time to kill him. D2031.9
• Magician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy. D2091.14
• Wounds from poisoned arrows healed by bath of milk. D2161.4.14.1.1
• Virgin Mary intercepts an arrow in battle. (Cf. V250.) D2163.3
• Resuscitation by striking with arrow. E11.2
• Resuscitation by shooting arrow. (Usually combined with E25.) E61
• Human bone, found in demon's stomach wrapped in silk with bow and arrow, becomes a boy. E149.1
• Abode of the dead in hills, barrows. E481.3.1
• Soul in arrow. E711.13
• Separable soul in crop of sparrow. E715.1.2
• Life token: arrow falls down. E761.7.12
• Sky-rope shot by means of arrow. F51.0.1
• Ascent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chain. F53
• Narrow road to heaven. F57.1
• Ascent to upper world on arrow. (Cf. F53.) F65.1
• Broad and narrow road in otherworld. F171.2
• Fairy in form of sparrow. F234.1.15.3
• Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banished. F321.1.4.4
• Burial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfs. F451.4.1.9
• Trolls live in howe (barrow, grave). F455.1.1
• Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds. F488.2
• Remarkably strong women defeats man in arrow and spear contest. F610.0.1.1
• Precocious strong hero demands bows and arrows. (Cf. F611.3.3.) F611.3.3.0.1
• Arrow shot thirty miles high. F638.1
• Arrow shot down years after the shot. F638.2
• Strong man shoots arrow as far as otherworld. F638.4
• One arrow shot into end of last one to make rope of arrows. F661.7.3
• Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1
• Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang. F661.11