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• God with elephant's face. A131.2
• God rides flying elephant. A136.1.5
• God's elephant. A155.5
• God has enormous elephant. A155.5.1
• Elephant as god's messenger. A165.2.1.1.3
• Earth rests on tortoise, serpent, elephant. (Cf. A1145.1.) A844.6
• Earth rests on elephant's back. A844.7
• Creation of elephant. A1887
• Formerly animals have ears like elephant's: hare bites them off. A2216.7
• Why mouse is crushed whenever she crosses a road: elephant's curse. A2239.9
• Why elephant hurts himself when running through the grass: mouse's curse. A2239.10
• Elephant tricked into eating own testicles. Has them inside. (Cf. A2365.1.1.) A2284.4
• Why elephant sees half-blindly. A2332.6.7
• How elephant got its tusks. A2345.6
• Elephant loses its breasts. A2353.3
• Why elephant has testicles inside. Persuaded to eat them. (Cf. A2284.4.) A2365.1.1
• Why elephant's penis is large. A2365.2.1.2
• Why elephant has white marks on its body. A2412.1.5
• Why the elephant lives without a hut. A2432.10
• Why elephant does not live in town. A2433.3.15
• Why elephant lives in Nigeria. A2434.3.3
• Cause of elephant's walk. A2441.1.7
• Friendship between jackal and elephant. A2493.11.2
• Friendship between monkey and elephant. A2493.14
• Friendship between partridge, monkey and elephant. A2493.14.5
• Friendship between dog and elephant. A2493.31
• The elephant's enemies. A2494.11
• Enmity between elephant and thousand-leg. A2494.11.1
• Enmity between crocodile and elephant. A2494.11.2
• Enmity between elephant and ant. A2494.11.3
• Why elephant is peaceable. A2531.3
• Why elephant flees when cock crows. A2531.3.1
• Dragon as modified elephant. B11.2.1.6
• Devastating elephant. B16.2.6
• Man-elephant. Man with elephant's head. B28
• Air-going elephant. B45
• Magic jewel obtained from elephant. B103.0.7
• Elephant determines road to be taken. B151.1.4
• Singing elephant. B214.1.12
• Land of elephants. B221.4
• Elephant as king of animals. B240.14
• King of elephants. B241.2.11
• Tame elephant not accepted by wild brethren. B261.1.1
• War between elephants and ants. B263.2
• War-elephants. B268.3
• Rabbit and elephant partners on trading expedition. B294.6
• Helpful elephant. B443.3
• Shut in with elephants, blackbird orders ants to burrow themselves into the elephants' brains. B524.1.8
• Elephants look after ascetic in jungle. B530.2
• Elephant rescues stolen girl. B543.3.1
• Person (animal) carried by elephant. B557.11
• Hero rides on animated wax elephant. B557.11.1
• Hero rides on winged elephant. B557.11.2
• Hare rides on winged elephant. B557.11.3
• Elephant draws plow to mark boundaries of empire. B599.3
• Marriage to elephant. B601.5
• Elephants have sexual desire only after eating mandrakes. B754.2
• Elephants have power of bringing rain. B791
• Elephants in folktales. B801
• Giant elephant. B871.2.1
• Transformation: man to elephant. D114.2
• Transformation: elephant to person. D314.3
• Transformation: white rat to white-winged elephant. D411.2.1
• Transformation: ox-demon to elephant. D412.2.6
• Transformation: elephant to object. D421.3
• Transformation: elephant to lotus. D421.3.1
• Transformation: elephant to stone. D421.3.2
• Savage elephant lulled to sleep by virgin. D1964.1
• White elephant can make rain fall. D2143.1.13
• Vampire with elephant face. E251.4.1
• Reincarnation as elephant. E612.11
• Divine elephant comes down from heaven to feed and disport himself. F35.2
• Ascent to heaven by holding on to elephant's tail. F75
• Journey to land of elephants. F127.2
• Elephants become lean from listening too much to fairy music; cannot graze. F369.8
• Dwarf can draw entrails out of elephant. F451.3.4.11
• Person with feet like elephant's. F517.1.7
• Man with eyes the size of brass pots, teeth like axeheads, ears like elephant's ears. F531.2.12
• Giant threads an elephant on a fish-hook. F531.3.12.1
• Giant with gigantic chain as belt. Elephant can go through each link. F531.4.2
• Man with strength of ten elephants. F610.5.2
• Extraordinary strength; elephant-wrestler. F617.1
• Strong man throws elephant across sea. F624.1.1
• Strong hero fells two maddened elephants. F628.1.6
• Mighty fisherman. Palm tree as rod, elephant as bait. F634
• City of elephants. F769.3
• Extraordinary firewood, of elephant tusks. F811.22
• Banana large as tooth of elephant. F813.6.1
• Golden wagon drawn by four golden elephants. F861.1.2
• Elephant allows jackal to quench his thirst by entering through his mouth to his stomach. F929.1
• Giant roasts camels, elephants for food on crater of volcano. G171
• Devil in form of a terrifying elephant. G303.3.3.2.10
• King selected by elephant's bowing to him. H171.1
• Elephant raises girl three times to be king's wife. H171.1.1
• Special power of chaste woman: raising fallen elephant. H413.4
• Test of resourcefulness: weighing elephant. Man puts him on boat; marks water-line; fills boat with stones until it sinks to same line; weighs stones. H506.1
• Riddle: deaths from sleepiness, anger, and greed. Elephant sleeps before snake's hole. Snake bites elephant and kills it. Jackal eats hole in elephant and is caught inside. Snake can't get out of its hole. H803
• Task: stealing elephant's tail (tusks). H1151.6
• Task: stealing enormous diamond from elephant's forehead. H1151.6.1
• Task: liberating wife's sister, elephant's captive, who lives in a box in his ear. H1151.18