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• Woman who fell from the sky. – Daughter of the sky-chief falls from the sky, is caught by birds, and lowered to the surface of the water. She becomes the creator. A21.1
• Degraded gods become angels. A52.0.2
• God drops water from his finger and the drops become angels. Lucifer imitated God and created devils. A52.0.7
• Living person becomes god. A104.1
• Dead body becomes god. A104.2
• Miscellaneous objects become gods. A104.3
• Spirits become gods. A104.4
• Mortals become gods. A117
• First men created with eternal life become gods. A117.1
• In extreme old age spirits become gods. A117.3
• God's throne becomes hot because of activities on earth. A152.9
• Divinity becomes mortal. A192.4
• Deity's child becomes fire as soon as he is born. A199.3
• Sun as man who left earth. Man, usually of supernatural birth, ascends to the sky and becomes the sun. A711
• Chest of sacrificed youth becomes the moon. A741.2
• Ascent to stars. People or animals ascend to the sky and become stars. A761
• River taken to sky becomes star. Eridanos. A761.1
• Stone emerges from primeval water. Devil sits on the stone, which becomes a mountain. A816.1
• Why earth becomes warm and wet: two huge copper vessels steaming over fire are underneath earth. A857.1
• Mountain from accident to primeval lizard. Lizard passing through a mountain is broken; his fore and hinder parts become mountains. A961.3
• Cliffs become hard. Were formerly soft but become hard by God's order. (Cf. A975.) A968.1
• Cliff from lovers' leap. Lovers in despair throw themselves from a high place. This becomes a cliff. A968.2
• Flood because earth has become too thickly populated. A1019.3
• Persons escape to sky and become thunder. A1142.3
• Creation of man by creator from ants. He commands them to become men. A1224.7
• Son of first human couple murdered by tiger sent by god; his head becomes the sun, his chest the moon, and his blood gives the red earth its color. A1277.3
• Why men become gray-headed. A1315.1
• Emergence of tribe from lower world stopped by fat woman or pregnant woman who becomes lodged in the hole of egress. A1631.1
• Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) A1861.2
• Discourteous answer: flounder's crooked mouth. When God asks him where he is going, instead of answering he turns to go toward God. His mouth becomes crooked. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2231.1.2
• Pegs driven into backs of baboons become tails. (Cf. A2378.9.2, A2378.1.1.) A2262.2
• Why the cock's comb becomes white when he is angry. A2321.10.1
• Tears of Adam and Eve leaving paradise become trees. (Cf. A2681.) A2612.1
• Tears of Mary at Annunciation become daisies. (Cf. A2651.) A2612.2
• God's tears become peas. (Cf. A2686.2.) A2612.3
• Seaweed becomes vegetation. A2615.4
• Willow shelters Holy Family: becomes weeping willow. (Cf. A2681.1.) A2632.1
• Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees. A2731.1
• Blood from wizard becomes red grain of cedar. Bleeding head of wizard who tries to kill the sun placed on top of a tree. (Cf. A2755.1.) A2731.3
• Why men become old. A2861
• Man transformed to beast becomes leader of herd. B241.3
• Animal journeys to Rome. Cock, geese, or dog go to Rome to become Pope. B296.1
• Helpful bird hatched by hero. Hero holds eagle's egg in hand and hatches it. Young eagle becomes his helper. B317
• Does, tigresses, she-wolves milked into pond, which becomes a pond of milk. B531.2.1
• Man becomes deer and marries deer. B648
• Tabu: calling profanely on God. Daughter of Emperor says to Rabbi: "Your God is a builder; so let him build a tent here." She becomes leprous and must be placed in a tent. (Cf. C51.3.1.) C94.4
• Tabu: looking at sun before prince becomes fourteen years old. C315.2.2.1
• Tabu: beast-husband staying too long at home: becomes sick. C713.3.1
• Magic horse becomes powerless because of broken tabu. C942.2
• Woman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy. He fails to return it and she becomes a man when she resumes human form. D11.2
• Transformation: normal men to ogres. Become ravenous. D47.2
• Transformation: man becomes hideous. D52.1
• Ugly man becomes handsome. D52.2
• Person becomes magically larger. D55.1
• Person becomes magically smaller. D55.2
• Fish cleaned by girl becomes man. D370.1
• Parts of bears fall off and become geese. D411.10.1
• Transformation: swine becomes another animal. D412.3
• Wax prince animated by serpent becomes human being. D435.1.4
• Transformation: fruit to birds. Trees grow fruits. Those which fall on ground ripen and are normal; those that fall into water become birds and fly away. D441.2.1
• Transformation: spear becomes mighty tree when driven into ground. D454.9.1.1
• Transformation: bone-dust becomes blazing fire. D457.12.1
• A candle becomes stone. D471.9
• Water becomes rocks. (Cf. D478). D471.10
• Transformation: object becomes bloody. D474
• Transformation: key becomes bloody. D474.1
• Transformation: water becomes bloody. D474.2
• Transformation: cake becomes bloody. D474.3
• Egg becomes bloody. D474.4
• Eyes of stone lion become bloody. D474.9
• Transformation: axe becomes golden. D475.1.17
• Transformation: silver dish becomes wooden. D475.3.5
• Tears become jewels. D475.4.5
• Water dripping off person becomes agates. D475.4.8
• Transformation: ice becomes grease. D476.1.9
• Bread becomes cake. D476.4
• Transformation: object becomes wine (or vice versa). D477
• Wine becomes blood (Cf. D471.4.1). D477.0.1.1
• Wine becomes honey. D477.0.1.2
• Spiced wine becomes bitter. D477.0.1.3
• Transformation: water becomes wine. D477.1
• Transformation: brine becomes wine. D477.2
• Beer becomes wine. D477.3
• Transformation: goose egg becomes hen's egg. D479.4
• Stretching sepulchre. Magically becomes longer. D482.5
• River expands and becomes sea. D483.1
• Person becomes larger. D486
• Demon becomes larger. D486.1
• Animal becomes larger. D487
• Monkey becomes 100,000 feet high. D487.2
• Ox-demon becomes 10,000 feet long. D487.3
• Small leaves become larger. D489.1
• Amulet enlarged to become cloak. D489.2
• Ship becomes small boat. D491.7
• Cock's comb becomes white. D492.1
• Man calls wife "my swallow"; she becomes swallow. (Cf. A1917.) D511.1
• Bag of stones becomes auks on touching ground. D565.9
• Storks become men in Egypt in the winter. (Cf. D155.1.) D624.1
• Fairies become birds every other year. D624.2
• Island canoe. An island that becomes a canoe at will. D632.1