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• Heavenly bodies as creator's companions. A38
• Three-bodied goddess. Hekate has three bodies standing back to back and looking in three directions. A123.1.1
• God with two joined bodies. A123.1.2
• God with good looking and ugly bodies. A123.1.3
• Goddess with three supernatural bodies: fire, cliff, sea. A123.1.7
• God's home on heavenly bodies. A151.6
• Beings born in hell have long bodies and cling with long nails to walls. A671.6
• Creation of the heavenly bodies. A700
• Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars. A700.1
• Heavenly bodies vomited up by creator. A700.2
• Heavenly bodies created after the plant world. A700.4
• Celestial bodies attached to a wheel in heaven around which they move. A702.3.1
• Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies. A703
• Sun and moon as divine bodies of gods. A718.2
• Bodies of water in primitive abyss sink. A910.3
• Bodies of water remnant of flood. A910.4
• Bodies of water from tears. (Cf. A901, A920.1.5, A941.2, A1012.) A911
• Origin of other bodies of water. A940
• Ghormuhas: men's bodies, horses' heads, one leg, cannibals. (Cf. B21.) B15.7.5
• Animal with one head, two bodies, six legs. B15.7.11
• Tabu: offending heavenly bodies. C75
• Plants as transformed bodies of gods. D210.1
• Divination by heavenly bodies. (Cf. D1291.) D1311.6
• Magic object controls heavenly bodies. D1546
• Magic dog's breath burns dead bodies. (Cf. B182.1, D1029.1.) D1566.1.6
• Magic control of heavenly bodies. (Cf. D2146.1.) D2149.6
• Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not. E34
• Wild huntsmen with entrails stringing from open bodies. E501.7.5
• Chariot of gods bears astral bodies of dead to heaven. E722.2.10.1
• Souls in hell wrenched from bodies with hot pitchforks by devils. E755.2.1.1
• Fairies have hairy bodies. F232.5
• Two persons with bodies joined. Siamese twins. F523
• Person with several bodies. F524
• Person with three bodies. Body of three men grown together in one at waist but parted in three from flanks and thighs. F524.1
• Persons with punctured bodies. May be carried on a pole put through the orifice; may be hung up on a peg. F529.1
• Giants with shaggy hair on their bodies. F531.1.6.3
• Person with jointless bodies of bone. F559.1
• Extraordinary bodies of water. F710
• Sea with fishes with bodies like men and sharp razor-like snouts. F711.6
• Artificial heavenly bodies. F793
• Extraordinary behavior of heavenly bodies. F961
• Heavenly bodies lament. F961.0.3
• God's praise chanted by the heavenly bodies. (Cf. A659.1, A767.) F961.0.4
• Heavenly bodies bear witness for and against man. F961.0.5
• Apertures of animals' bodies closed up in certain land. F988.3
• Burning bodies vomit. F1099.5
• People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them. G23
• Cannibals cut off parts of children's bodies. G86
• Demons have only souls but no bodies. G302.4.3
• Devil appears to girl who prays over pit where she has thrown the bodies of her babies. G303.6.2.7
• Rakshasas have power of extending bodies eighty miles. G369.1.1
• Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house. G691
• Mutilation of children's bodies for identification. H56.2
• Test: guessing nature of certain plant. Plant came from scrapings of princesses' bodies. H522.2
• Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Q415.7.1
• Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment. Q461.2
• Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors. S139.2.2.7
• Bodies of would-be bride and groom besmeared with turmeric and mustard-oil. T135.12
• Piglings cut from bodies of sows and reared. T584.4
• Worship of heavenly bodies. V1.4