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28 motifs match “excrement” · back to the chapters
- Donkeys ask immediate reward from God: eat their own excrements. A2232.11
- Excrements of animals. A2385
- Why red dog's excrement contains animal hair. A2385.2
- Honey as excrement of bees. A2385.3
- Why crow eats excrement. A2435.4.7.1
- Animal's treatment of its excrements (urine). A2495
- Why cat buries its excrements. A2495.1
- Why ass smells his own excrements. A2495.2
- Transformation: excrements to person. D437.4
- Magic excrements. D1002
- Excrements as advisers. (Cf. D1002.) D1312.1.1
- Filth (dirt, excrements) eaten gives immortality. (Cf. D1002.) D1346.13
- Excrements cause approaching animals to fall dead. (Cf. D1002.) D1402.18
- Treasure from excrements. (Cf. D1002.) D1454.5
- Magic excrement as cure for cancer. (Cf. D1002.) D1502.10.1
- Speaking excrements. (Cf. D1022, D1026.) D1610.6.4
- Resuscitation from excrement of one who has eaten person (animal). E41
- Extraordinary excrement. F559.3
- Excrements thought to be meat and therefore eaten. J1772.9
- Excrement thought to be berries. Numskull tries to sell it. J1772.9.1
- Woman tries to climb rope of excrement and urine. (Cf. H1021.1.) J2133.12
- Trickster's false creations fail him. A trickster creates men from his excrements (or the like). They melt in the sun. J2186
- Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. K198
- Ant-eater deceives jaguar by excrement-exchange. K1721.2
- Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. K2061.10
- Birth from excrement. T541.8.1
- The dream of marking the treasure. A man dreams that he finds treasure and that he marks the spot with his excrements. Only the latter part of the dream is true. X31
- Man dreams that he is rich. Finds cat's excrements. X31.1