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• Hearth-god. A411.4
• Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts. A761.4
• Origin of the domestic hearth. A1455.1
• Devil throws tar at tree: hence tar in tree-heart. (Cf. A2755.3.) A2734.2
• Origin of tar in heart of trees. (Cf. A2734.2.) A2755.3
• Why the heartsease (polygonum persicaria) has red stripes. A2772.3
• Heart of dragon. B11.2.9
• Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out. B17.1.2.2
• Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). B17.1.2.2.1
• Treasure-producing bird-heart. (Cf. D1015.1.1.) Brings riches when eaten. B113.1
• Wisdom from eating fox's heart. B163.1.1
• Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart. B217.1.2
• Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. C219.4
• Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
• Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
• Transformation: money of the hard-hearted to scorpions. (Cf. D444.2, D444.4, D469.11, D471.1). D444.1
• Transformation: animal heart to other object. D457.15
• Transformation: fox's heart to rattle. D457.15.1
• Pursued sweetheart becomes tree. (Cf. D215.) D642.3.1
• Disenchantment by eating enchanter's heart. D763.1
• Magic object found in heart of whale. D849.5.1
• Magic bird-heart eaten unwittingly. D859.4.1
• Magic heart – human. D997.1
• Magic heart of unborn child. D997.1.1
• Magic heart of animal. D1015.1
• Magic bird heart. D1015.1.1
• Magic dragon heart. (Cf. B11.2.9.) D1015.1.2
• Magic serpent heart. D1015.1.3
• Magic wolf heart. D1015.1.4
• Magic fox heart. D1015.1.5
• Magic hearth. D1147
• Fox-heart gives magic wisdom. (Cf. D1015.1.5.) D1300.7
• Heart of enemy eaten produces magic strength. D1335.1.2
• Charm which makes inhabitants of city faint-hearted. (Cf. D1273.) D1351.4
• Boiling lock of lover's hair draws him to sweetheart. D1355.3.5
• Eating ferocious animal's heart makes person cruel. (Cf. D1015.1, D1335.1.2.) D1357.1
• Eating courageous animal's heart makes courageous. (Cf. E714.4.1. D1358.1
• Eating dragon's heart makes courageous. (Cf. B11, D1015.1.2.) D1358.1.1
• Heart of unborn child renders person invisible. (Cf. D997.1.1.) D1361.8
• Magic animal's heart renders invisible. (Cf. D1015.1.) D1361.29
• Magic serpent heart kills giant. (Cf. D1015.1.3.) D1402.3.1
• Dragon's heart-blood as remedy. (Cf. B11.2.9, D1015.1.2, D1016) D1500.1.7.3.3
• Magic bird-heart (when eaten) brings man to kingship. (Cf. D1015.1.1, B113.1.) D1561.1.1
• Hearth cleaned by angel always free of ashes. (Cf. D1147, V230.) D1683
• Invulnerability lost if man forgets sweetheart. D1847.1
• Girl's heart magically removed and fed to man draws her to him. D1905.1
• Needle, placed under hearth, burns and causes death of victim. D2061.2.2.8.1
• Heart removed by magic. D2062.1
• Magic heart-sickness. D2064.0.2
• Power of flying from eating children's hearts. D2135.1
• Eating of human hearts as cure for insomnia. D2161.4.13
• Saint changes vicious king's heart to peaceful thoughts. D2163.5.2
• Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover. E211
• Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. E211.1
• Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. E211.2
• Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart. E214
• Dead lover returns to dance with fickle sweetheart at her wedding. E214.1
• The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
• Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
• Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.) E431.16.2
• Corpse exhumed and heart cremated to lay ghost. E441.3
• Soul (life) in the heart. E714.4
• Eaten heart gives one the owner's qualities. E714.4.1
• Wraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of lover. E723.5
• Heart successfully replaced. E786
• Wife goes to land of dead to procure dead husband's heart. F81.1.1
• Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. F281
• Spirit in heart of man (fairy). F408.2
• Water-spirits have hearth made of three human skulls. F420.2.5
• Giant with unusual heart. F531.1.6.10
• Giant with stone heart. F531.1.6.10.1
• Hair above heart so stiff it rends five garments. F555.8.1
• Remarkable heart. F559.7
• Person with three hearts. F559.7.1
• Adder grows in heart of man. F559.7.2
• Person of remarkable sight can see through hearts of trees. F642.3.1
• Land of plenty. Yields everything to heart's desire. F701
• Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted, bands around heart of faithful servant snap one by one. F875
• Extraordinary hearth. F893
• Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.) F912.3
• River boils when ashes of hearts are cast into it. F932.7.1
• Animal dies of broken heart. F981.6
• Animal's broken heart disgorged. F981.6.1
• Key to house concealed in man's heart. F1034.5.1
• Death from broken heart. F1041.1.1
• Heart breaks at third drink from silver canister. F1041.1.1.1
• Heart breaks when girl hears lover kiss another. F1041.1.1.2
• Heart breaks from sorrow. F1041.1.1.3
• Hearts break when lovers are told beloved is dead. F1041.1.1.4
• Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. F1041.1.2.1
• Heart breaks when girl learns men are slain in battle on her account. F1041.1.3.6
• Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. F1041.1.3.7
• Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. F1096.1
• Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.) G72.4
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
• Familiar's abode is hearth of magician. G225.0.5.1
• Witch eats person's entrails (heart). G262.2
• Witch's heart (lungs, stomach) impossible to burn. G275.3.2
• Ogre eats only men's hearts. G312.6