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46 motifs match “enormous” · back to the chapters
- God has enormous elephant. A155.5.1
- Dragon of enormous size. B11.2.12
- Enormous pack of dogs in wild hunt. Overcome people by their mass. E501.4.1.1
- Person with enormous belly. F529.6
- Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.) F531
- Giant's enormous weapons. F531.4.5
- Giant has enormous spear. F531.4.5.5
- Giant wears enormous jewel. F531.4.6
- Giant's enormous bed. F531.4.10
- Giant's enormous animals. F531.4.11
- Enormously fat woman with beard. F545.1.5.1
- Enormous vagina. F547.5.2
- Enormous testicles. F547.7
- Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spot. F555.3.2
- Strong hero sent from home because of enormous appetite. F612.1
- Strong man throws enormous stone. F624.2.0.1
- Strong man moves enormous rock. F624.2.0.2
- Little girl moves enormous bow which nobody could ever carry before. F624.9
- Person sees enormous distance. F642.8
- Prolific grain. Produces enormously. F815.6
- Enormous kava plant. F816.2
- Marvelous paddle sends canoe enormous distance with each stroke. F841.2.7
- Enormous canoe. F841.3.3
- Enormous army camp. F873.2
- Enormous cage. F899.3
- Cock with enormous silver ears. F989.19
- Man clears river of enormous width in one leap. F1071.2.1
- Witch with enormous hands. G217
- Enormous quantities of food eaten by demons. G302.9.7
- Suitor preferred who will pay enormous sum for bride. H318
- Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short time. H1096
- Task: cleaning enormous cistern in one day. H1097.2
- Task: plowing enormous amount of land in one day. H1103.2
- Task: hauling enormous number of things from one farm to another in one day. H1109.2
- Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.) H1131
- Task: eating enormous amount. H1141
- Task: drinking enormous amount. H1142
- Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.) H1149.4
- Task: stealing enormous diamond from elephant's forehead. H1151.6.1
- Curiosity satisfied: riding the ox's horns. As his ox, who has enormous horns, is asleep, the fool gets on the horns. The ox wakes and throws him off. When he comes to his senses, the fool says, "I had a hard time, but my curiosity is satisfied." J2375
- Deceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack made. K174
- Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
- Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. K1784
- The dream about a tree which sprouts enormously, indicates the birth of a hero (saint). M312.0.4.1
- Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Q451.4.10
- Men with enormous and unnatural appetite cured by saint. V221.10