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• Original moon changed into sun and sun into moon. A736.8
• Why God changed right hand into left. Man loses hand with which he gives devil a box on ears. A1311.2
• Death comes into the world by treachery of the gods: stick used by man for scratching his back is changed into cobra. A1335.14
• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day. A1593
• Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
• Animals from transformed men according to favorite food. One man asks for flesh, one for blood, etc. They are changed to mice, cats, and bugs. (Cf. A1811, A1853.) A1715.4
• Animal characteristics changed by stretching. A2213.4
• How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.2
• How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.4
• Why partridge has pretty feet. Exchanged with peacock. (Also told of jay and flamingo.) (Cf. A2241.) A2375.2.1
• Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (Cf. A2245.1.) A2423.1.1
• Thrush's beautiful voice. Exchanged with woodcock. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2245.1.) A2423.2.1
• Frogs formerly were ducks stolen from Eden by Cain. God changed them to frogs; and so frogs sound like ducks in the spring. (Cf. A2162.) A2426.4.1.1
• Ring-dove's nest. Exchanged with gull. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.3
• Gull's nest. Exchanged with ringdove. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.4
• How tiger formerly cooked its food and why it changed. A2435.1.2
• Food of dog. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with cat.) A2435.3.1
• Food of cat. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with dog.) A2435.3.2
• Dragon from transformed horse. White horse plunges into water and is changed into a dragon. B11.1.2
• Transformation: material of object changed. D470
• Tin changed into silver. D475.3.2
• Oil changed to jewels. D475.4.9
• A cup of marble changed into one of crystal. D475.5
• Rock changed into milk. D476.1.7
• Stream changed to egg. D476.1.8
• Bone-powder changed into cheese. D476.1.10
• Edible substance changed to inedible. D476.2
• Cooked meat changed to raw. (Cf. D476.4.) D476.2.2
• Bacon changed to iron. D476.3.2
• Bacon changed to different foods. D476.3.2.1
• Wine miraculously changed into other object. D477.0.1
• Water changed to other substance (or vice versa). D478
• Transformation: water changed into oil. D478.7
• Water changed into balsam. D478.8
• Color of object changed. D492
• Color of hair suddenly changed. D492.3
• Size changed at will. D631
• Animal's size changed at will. D631.2
• Size of object changed at will. D631.3
• Partial transformation – color changed. D682.4
• Magic object exchanged for worthless. Foolish brother (wife) exchanges old object for new. D871.1
• Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die. D1853
• Immortality exchanged for death on alternate days. D1853.1
• Weather changed on confession of deed. D2140.3
• Curse magically changed to blessing. D2175.5
• Ghost laid when house it haunts is destroyed or changed. E451.8
• Organs exchanged with those of animal. E789.1
• Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). F321.1.2.3
• Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
• Voice changed by medicine. F556.3
• Demon's size changed at will. (Cf. D631.7.) G302.3.0.1
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• Sword magically changed to wood when executioner is to decapitate innocent person. H215.1
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• One eye exchanged for wisdom. (Odin.) J163.3
• Can drink only one kind of wine at a time. Priests come to an inn where host gives them good wine and bad. They insist on having all good since they must drink only one kind of wine. On their return he serves them with all bad. They claim to have had the rule changed. J1511.15
• Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning. J2325
• Plowing contest won by deception: hare exchanged for horse. God and the devil contest in plowing. The devil plows with a horse, God with a hare. While the devil is asleep, God takes the devil's horse and plows the field. When he wakes, the devil thinks the hare has plowed so much and gladly trades his horse for the hare. K41.1
• Animals made by magic exchanged for real ones. The magic animals disappear. K139.1
• Color of devil's cows changed while he sleeps so that he does not know them. Only those not changed (all black, all red, etc.) belong to the devil. K483
• Uriah letter changed. Falsified order of execution. A messenger is sent with a letter ordering the recipient to kill the bearer. On the way the letter is changed so that the bearer is honored. K511
• Clothes changed so as to escape. K521.4
• Respite from death until clothes are changed. K551.4.1
• Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. K981
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1
• Noose changed so that ogre's daughter is dragged to death. K1611.4
• Substituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the message. K1851
• Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. K1921.1
• Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) K2117
• King shown he is less powerful than God. In spite of all his plans, his servant recovers the lost (exchanged) treasure. L418
• Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. M225
• Horse, clothes, and members of rider's body exchanged for food. M225.1
• Free keep in inn exchanged for good story. M231
• Curse changed by God into blessing. M425
• Sign of prisoner's reprieve changed by wind. A flag to be flown in certain way, but wind catches it just at the wrong moment so that prisoner is executed. N394.1
• Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged. P313.1
• Food concealed from saint miraculously changed to stones. (Cf. Q551.3.) Q552.16.1
• Fishermen cut fish into pieces and claim that they have none. Saint says, "If you have none, may you have them; if you have, may they be stones." Pieces of fish are changed to stones. (Cf. A977.5.2.) Q552.16.1.1
• Wives exchanged. T141.2
• Adulterous love changed into a chaste one. T372
• Fetus exchanged from one woman to another. T577
• Vision in which king sees his four sons changed into lion, greyhound, beagle, cur, which fight with alternating success, until lion subdues the other three. V515.2.3