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• Goddess with eight mouths. A123.2.2.2
• God with eight heads. A123.4.1.3
• Sleipnir: eight-legged horse of Odin. A136.1.2.1
• Goddess represented as mounted on a drake, attended by eight chief snakes attended by snake jewels. A137.9
• Eight heavens. A651.1.5
• The eight paradises. A661.2
• Eight (symbolical) steps of the ladder of heaven. A666.1
• Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
• Great flood lasts eight months. A1010.2
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• Man made of substances from eight different sources. A1260.1.2
• Adam's body made of eight (four) things. Body, earth; bones, stones; veins, roots; blood, water; hair, grass; thoughts, wind; spirit, clouds, or warmth, fire; cold, air; dryness, earth; instability, water. A1260.1.3
• Origin of weights and measures. A1471.2
• Eight-headed animal. B15.1.2.7
• Eight-eyed bat. B15.4.1.4
• Fox with eight-forked tail. B15.7.4
• Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket. B542.1.2
• Measuring worm rescues from a height. B542.1.3
• Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. C231.5
• Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years. C611.1.1
• Magic measurement (height of Christ). D1273.4
• Magic staves enable man to gain precipitous height. (Cf. D1254.) D1539.3
• Magic suspension of weight. D1691
• Ghost's strength waxes and wanes with height of fire. D1836.1
• Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.) D2065.4
• Magic heightening of mountain. D2152.4
• Ghost prevents removal of box from abbey. The box takes on miraculous weight. E299.2
• Eight-eyed person. F512.2.1.2
• Giant with eight eyes. F531.1.1.5.1
• Giant with six or eight arms. F531.1.6.7.2
• Giants live to be eighteen thousand years old. F531.6.4.2
• Person remarkably light in weight. F584
• Princess' weight that of five flowers. F584.1
• Man carries a beam eighteen feet in length and cuts path through jungle at same time. F631.6.2
• Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. F638.3
• Gigantic sword. Sword eight elbow-lengths long and two spans broad. F833.8
• Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. F931.10
• River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. F932.8.6
• Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.) G259.4
• Witch causes person to fall from height. G269.13
• Rakshasas have power of extending bodies eighty miles. G369.1.1
• Recognition by manner of throwing cakes of different weights into faces of old uncles. H35.5
• If princess is chaste her weight will be only that of five flowers; if not, normal. H413.6
• King: Show me a ruby eight for a pice, nectar eight for a pice, and a faithless creature worth one-eighth of a pice. Minister: The lamp sells at eight for a pice and gives more light than any ruby; the water is the real nectar; and the dog is worthless and faithless lover because he follows anyone who feeds him. H587.1
• Riddles of weight and measure. H690
• Riddles of weight. H691
• Weight of bodily member chosen rather than its loss. (Cf. J351.) J341
• Fox prefers to bear weight of his tail rather than give part of it to ape. J341.1
• Gnats apologize for lighting on bull's horn. He had not felt their weight. J953.10
• Crow alighting on falling tree thinks his weight made it fall. J953.11
• Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
• The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
• Who gets the beehive. Badger: "I was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Crane: "My daughter was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Wolf: "I am only eight years old, but we shall see who gets the beehive." J1451
• Not in good form. A duke invites a notorious eater. The latter consumes eight fowls, forty eggs, and other things in proportion. In leaving he apologizes for eating so little as he had not felt well the night before. He will do better next time. J1468
• Eight-oared ferry-boat mistaken for an animal which must have long legs to wade the stream. J1772.14
• Fool undergoes castration to put on weight. J1919.5.3
• Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight days. J2033
• Guarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stones. J2125
• Telling their horses apart. One fool docks the tail of his horse; the horse of the second gets tail caught in gate, is docked too. One notches ear of his horse; the second horse notches its ear on the fence. Finally they measure heights of their horses. The black horse is two inches taller than the white. J2722
• Reduced prices but false weights. K286
• Owner pretends to help burglars to divide booty: handles weights so loudly that police are summoned. K432.2
• Trickster threatens to throw weight into a cloud: ogre intimidated. K1746
• Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird. K1861.1
• Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height. K1975
• Hypocrite breaks vow to give coin in charity. Finds coin is short weight. K2096.1
• King vainly attempts to measure the height of the sky and the depth of the sea. L414.1
• Prophecy of future greatness if boy lives to be eighteen. M312.0.3
• Prophecy: death before eighteen years. M341.1.3.2
• Prophecy: danger to threatened newborn boy at his eighteenth year. M341.1.4.2
• Prophecy that hero will not live another eighteen years. M341.1.5.2
• Sword that is to kill one is weighted and sunk so as to avoid the prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.) M377
• Curse given from a height. Will fall with full effect on objects at which it is aimed. M413.1
• Eight brothers. P251.6.4
• Eight sisters. P252.4
• Eighteen sisters kill one another. P252.7
• Use of false weights and measures punished. Q274.3
• St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) Q291.1
• Penance: pilgrimage with hands and loins weighted with iron. Q522.4
• Murder by throwing from height. S127
• To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards. T46.1
• Bride purchased for her weight in gold. T52.3
• Boy is denied sight of all women except his mother and his nurse until he is eighteen. He falls in love with the first woman who is more attractive than his mother. T371.1
• Lie: great weight of large person. X922
• Lie: weight of large mosquito. X1286.1.2
• Person falls from great height without injury. X1731.1
• Man falls from height, goes into solid rock up to knees. X1731.2
• Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay. Z21.1
• Formulistic number: eight. Z71.16.1
• Eight deadly sins. Z71.16.1.1
• Eight virtues. Z71.16.1.2
• Eight miracles of Christ's body in the sacrament. Z71.16.1.3
• Eight unprofitable types of fasting. Z71.16.1.4
• Formulistic number: eighty. Z71.16.6
• Formulistic number: eighty thousand. Z71.16.8
• Death as eight-headed monster. Z111.3
• "Time" overpowered when weight is taken from his clock. Z122.1