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• Roads marked out by supernatural cows. A989.2
• Devil's cows one-horned; God makes them two-horned. (Cf. A2326.3.1.) A2286.2.3
• God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.) A2286.2.4
• Why cows have two horns. (Cf. A2286.2.3.) A2326.3.1
• Why cows ruminate. (Cf. A2231.1.1.) A2472.1
• Cows of the sun. (Cf. Odyssey.) B19.6.1
• Three sea-cows: one red, one white, one black. B72.1
• Magic white cows with red ears. B184.2.0.1.1
• Cows speak to one another on Christmas. (Cf. B215.) B251.1.2.2
• Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. B251.1.2.3
• Army of cows. B268.10
• Faithful cows lose milk at king's death. B301.6.3
• Cows grateful for hero's housekeeping for them. B396
• Snake milks cows at night. B765.4
• Birds perch on ears of cows. B853
• Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount. B854
• Tabu: not to enter cowshed during menses. C141.2
• Nisser in form of cows. D133.1.1
• Witch transforms self to animal (hare, pig) so as to suck cows. D655.2
• Charm makes cows give plenty of milk. (Cf. D1273.) D1449.1
• Bath in milk of white, hornless cows as antidote for poison. D1515.3
• Magic bag sucks milk from cows. It is commanded by a witch. (Cf. D1193, D2083.3.) D1605.2
• Cows magically made dry. D2083.1
• Cows made to give bad milk. D2083.2
• Witches make cows give bloody milk. D2083.2.1
• Witch transfers milk from another's cows by use of hair rope. D2083.3.2
• Witch transfers milk from another's cows to a vessel. D2083.3.3
• Vampire milks cows dry. E251.3.2
• Girl lives until her cowslip is pulled. E765.3.4
• Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.) F235.9
• Fairies' cows. (Cf. F460.2.9.) F241.2
• Color of fairies' cows. F241.2.1
• Fairies have red cows. F241.2.1.1
• Fairies milk cows. F271.1
• Fairies milk mortal's cows dry. F366.1
• Fairies admit calves to cows, depriving children of milk. F366.1.2
• Spirits tangle up peasant's cows. F402.1.3
• Dwarfs bewitch cows to give no milk. F451.3.3.5
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. F647.5.3
• Skillful milker milks cows incessantly. F678.1
• Remarkable herdsman. Sits on mountain top. Cows come from great distance at his call. F679.1
• Milk from saint's cows forms lake. F989.9
• Milk gushes forth from cows when they sit under tree inhabited by deity. H45.2
• Who are really meek? Cows and daughters. H659.21
• Task: cleaning cowshed. H1102.1
• Quest for demon-owned cows. H1364
• Clever jackal covers up his clumsiness in catching cows by saying he was running to and fro because he was looking for the fattest calf. J873.2
• Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
• Rabbit thought to be a cow. Servant sent to bring in cows is found chasing rabbits. J1757
• Cows in church thought to be ghost. J1782.1.1
• Trying to have cows make curds before being milked. J1905.5
• The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
• Stolen cows cause a war. K300.1
• Cow makes a hundred-fold return. The trickster has a cow that leads the parson's cows to him. He thus tests the parson's text, "He who gives in God's name shall have it back a hundred-fold." K366.1.1
• Cows turned into rice field. Later made to disgorge rice. K366.1.4
• 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
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• Cows killed for their hides when large price is reported by trickster. K941.1
• Calves not let to cows during fast. P623.0.7
• Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows. Q21.1
• Reward: man's cows magically multiply. (Cf. Q1.) Q141
• Cows white-headed during reign of good king. Q153.1
• Cast-off wife sent to herd cows. S437
• Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. V65.1
• A stranger notices that man's cows need feed, feeds them. They die of the shock of being fed. W152.13.1
• Names of persons in the Trinity. The priest's example: the three cows. The boy: "The Holy Ghost has just had a calf." X435.4
• Lie: country so steep that people look up chimney to see when the cows come home. X1523.1