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• Hermaphroditic creator. The creator is half man and half woman or is thought of as both male and female. A12
• Male and female creators. A12.1
• Female creator. A15.1
• Creator offspring of dual powers of nature. (Male and female principles.) A23
• Male and female creators beget gods. A112.2
• Female deities as fly-catchers. A132.6.4
• Male god invoked in east; female in west. A183.1
• Male sun-god while ascending; female while setting. A227.1
• Male and female waters. A918
• Cloud on lofty male mountain induced by a beautiful female mountain to bow to her feet: hence their present shape. A969.2
• Origin of female sex-organs. A1313.2
• Origin of decrying female sinners. A1556.3.1
• Adam names male animals, Eve, female. A2571.0.2
• Female bears have no breasts to nurse their young – suck paws. B725
• Double snake – male and female. B726
• Female rattlesnakes mate with black snakes rather than with male rattlesnakes. B754.3.1
• Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned. B754.4
• Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) B754.6
• Female snake seven years pregnant. B765.25
• Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.1.10
• Woman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy. He fails to return it and she becomes a man when she resumes human form. D11.2
• Washers at the ford. Appearance of female figure washing bloody armor, chariot cushions, or human limb (at ford) as sign of coming disaster in battle. (Cf. A485.1, E761.1, M301.6.1, Z129.2.2.) D1812.5.1.1.6
• Long-plaited hair struck on ground summons female goddess to aid of owner. D2074.2.2.1
• Ghosts may eat only female animals. E259.2
• Revenant in female dress. E422.4.4
• Revenant as horrible female figure. Covered with snakes and toads. E425.1.6
• Lady of the Lake. A female lake-spirit. F421.1
• Dryad. Female spirit dwelling among trees. F441.2.2
• Hamadryad. Female spirit of a particular tree. F441.2.3
• Succubus: female incubus. F471.2.1
• Hermaphrodite. Person with both male and female sexual organs. F547.2
• Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs – three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color – but dies. F987.1
• Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. G11.6.1
• Female eater of corpses. G21
• Witch (female demon) has persons she has enchanted as servants. G263.0.1
• Female ogre seduces men with charm (words). G264.3
• Two devils (male and female) extracted from corpse's belly. G303.1.8
• Missing female poet discovered through test of poetic ability. H12.1
• What three not born of male and female ate and drank on earth? (Angels who visited Abraham.) H828
• Task: furnish beef which is neither male nor female. Countertask: send for it when it is neither night nor day. H1074
• Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order. J1539.1
• One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.) J1662.1
• Numskull (female devil) thinks her pubic hair has been telling her lies and pulls it out together with the skin. J1842.1
• Female master thief. K302
• Attack made on groom after he has been invited to female apartments to have meal with bride. K778.4
• Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
• Man drawn up into female apartments on rope. K1343
• Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) K1343.1
• Female overpowered when caught in tree cleft (hole in hedge). K1384
• Queen chosen to live rather than king so that she can bear an heir to the throne. Serpents alleged to tell by their death which shall die first: male serpent predicts king's death; female, queen's. King has male serpent killed. P17.2
• Noble woman given to foreigners on condition that thereafter their land be held by female right. P61
• Female slaves. (Cf. P173.1.) P170.0.1
• Female slaves as medium of exchange (unit of value). P170.0.1.1
• Female physician. P424.5
• Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) Q431.5.3
• Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. T137.3
• Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go. T211.1.4
• Male embryo transformed in womb to female. T577.1
• Man transformed to female (human or animal) bears offspring. (Cf. T554.0.1.) T578.2
• Lie: salesman guarantees sow to bear male, then female, then kid. X1233.4.1