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• Culture hero has three heads of hair of different colors. A526.4
• Culture hero with different colored eyes, one brown, one green. A526.5.1
• Each world corresponds to different color. A659.4
• Two creators go by different route to establish features of the earth. A902.1
• Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
• Creator establishes twelve winds, each a different color. A1129.1.1
• Different types of men produced from one original type. A1227
• Man made of earth brought from four different places. A1241.5
• Man made from combination of different objects. A1260.1
• Man made of substances from eight different sources. A1260.1.2
• Origin of sex differentiations. A1313.0.2
• Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages. A1333
• Bad women combination of nine different animals. A1371.2
• Distribution and differentiation of peoples – general. A1600
• Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
• Origin of different peoples according to choice of chairs. A1614.4.2
• 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
• Indians and whites from different legs of first man. A1614.7
• Reasons for difference in population sizes in different areas. A1621
• Origin of different classes – social and professional. A1650
• Custom of differentiating social classes by color of dress introduced. A1650.2
• Origin of different trades. A1650.3
• Origin of different classes – miscellaneous. A1659
• Distribution and differentiation of people – miscellaneous. A1690
• Differentiation between "free" (saer) and "unfree" (daer). A1691
• Animals from different parts of body of slain giant. Giant person, cow, ox, etc. A1716.1
• 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
• Bird council assigns coats to different birds. B238.2
• Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. B731.14
• Transformation to person of different sex. D10
• Transformation to person of different social class. D20
• Transformation to a person of different social class – miscellaneous. D29
• Transformation to person of different race. D30
• Magic change to different appearance. D52
• Transformation: man to different man – miscellaneous. D90
• Bacon changed to different foods. D476.3.2.1
• Yearly transformation to person of different sex. D624.3
• City's inhabitants transformed to fish. Different classes to different colored fish. D692
• Three redeeming kisses. (Die weisse Frau.) A woman can be disenchanted from animal form if man will kiss her three times, each time when she is in the form of a different terrifying animal. D735.2
• Multiplication of the corpse of saint when different communities claim the body. D2106.1.4
• Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart. F1072
• Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.) Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100–199 and G500–699.) G303
• Recognition by manner of throwing cakes of different weights into faces of old uncles. H35.5
• Riddle: king in red; courtiers in different colors. (Spring and flowers.) H731.3
• Task: in one day feathering a barn, each feather from different bird. H1104.1.1
• Task: killing enough birds in one day to cover the mountain, each bird to be of a different species. H1109.3
• Quest to different other realms. H1289
• Sleep before committing suicide. After sleeping you will feel differently about suicide. J21.2.2
• Unsuccessful marriage of jackals and turtles (different abits). J414.3
• Bird refuses to maintain friendship with bird of different habits. J416.1
• Elephant, giraffe, snake, and ant try keeping house together: requirements different. J512.7.1
• Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
• Dog leader fears defeat because his forces are of different breeds. Wolves are all of one kind. J1023
• Show me how it is done. Wronged woman thus addresses ruler, who is indifferent to insults directed at him. She wishes to be shown how to bear insults. This rebukes him. J1284.1
• Porridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in another. J2167
• The dog between the two castles. In castles on opposite hills guards play different tunes during meals. The dog goes toward the music in one castle but when he is about half way up the hill the music begins on the other. He keeps alternating and running up and down until the meals are over and he gets nothing. J2183.1
• The local moon. Numskull greets old moon as if it were new. "I haven't seen it before, for I have just come to the city." (Each town thought to have a different moon.) J2271.1
• Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own. J2496.2
• Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
• Merchant buys the same article several times from the same or different seller. K258.2
• Shoes dropped to distract owner's attention. The thief drops two shoes in different places and steals a ram while the shepherd goes after the shoes. K341.6
• Husband and wife each receive money (from different persons) to bury the other, who is supposed to be dead. K482.1
• Dupe betrayed by asking him ambiguous questions. They are phrased in such a way that he understands them differently from the way they are intended. K493
• Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. K533.1
• Hero wears so many different costumes that he is believed to represent a host. K1883.9
• Cat witness to betrothal punishes violator. Kills the man's son when he has married a different woman. M205.1.2
• Curse: corpse to be put in three different places after person's death. M453
• Wager: who can call three tree names first. The bear names different varieties of the same tree, so that the fox wins the wager. N51
• The choice of roads. At parting of three roads are equivocal inscriptions telling what will happen if each is chosen. Brothers each choose a different road. N122.0.1
• Different kinds of luck attending persons born on the several days of the week. N127.0.1
• Separation by being on different banks of stream. N315
• Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens. R222
• Falling in love with someone of a different caste. T91.7.2
• Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies. T92.0.1
• Different religion as obstacle for marriage. T131.8
• Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.) T232
• Ass indifferent to enemy's approach: he could be no more miserable than now. U151
• The wry-mouthed family. Each member has mouth turned in a different way. Unavailing attempts to blow out the light. X131
• "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest. Z14
• The bird indifferent to pain. A man catches a mango-bird eating mangoes and strikes it against the roots of a mango-tree. The bird cannot be made to say it suffers from the blow. In turn, he puts it in water, strikes it on the ground, a stile, a door-frame, singes its feathers, cuts it up, cooks it, and eats it. The bird always expresses indifference in a cumulative rhyme. At last the bird asks him to look out of the window, whereupon it flies out of his nose and the man dies. Z49.3
• Death allegorically personified as an animal made up of several different animals. Z111.3.1