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• God with many faces. A123.2.1
• God with many eyes. A123.3.1
• God with many heads. A123.4.1
• God with many arms. Siva has ten arms. A123.5.1
• Many-colored god. A123.7.1
• Gods (supernatural beings) have many names. (Cf. C432.) A139.1
• God of whirlwind. Typhon. He is represented as having serpents' heads on his shoulders, as having a voice like the sound of many beasts and eyes which flash fire. A282.1
• God "of many arts". A450.1
• Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother. A631
• Creation of the moon. (Cf. A710 to A719, where many of the motifs refer to the moon). A740
• Nature and condition of the moon. Many motifs in A720 to A739 refer to the moon and are not here repeated. A750
• Many-colored fountain breaks forth where saint strikes earth with his foot. A941.5.2
• The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
• Goddess scatters pubic hairs on fish: why he has so many bones. A2211.15
• Why reindeer has so many qualities. A2510.1
• Many-headed dragon. (Cf. B15.1.2.) B11.2.3
• Many-headed animal. (Cf. B15.7.2.) B15.1.2
• Other many-headed animals. B15.1.2.10
• Many-mouthed animal. (Cf. B15.7.2.) B15.2
• Many-horned animal. B15.3.1
• Many-eyed animal. B15.4.1
• Many-eyed antelope. B15.4.1.1
• Animals with many legs. B15.6.3
• Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead. B172.2
• Compressible magic box containing many people and objects. East Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 134ff. No. 13. D491.2.1.1
• Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her. D616
• Transformation: woman to fly so as to help hero pick out weapons from among many. D659.14
• Magic fish talk so that ogre thinks hero has many brothers with him. (Cf. B175.) D1613.1
• Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale. (Cf. D1071.) D1682
• Invulnerability bestowed by many-headed monster. (Cf. B15.1.2.) D1846.2
• Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. D1960.1
• Sleepless watcher magically put to sleep. Usually has a magic watchful eye, which remains awake while his many other eyes sleep. (Argus). D1961
• Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years. D2012
• Fairies (elves). See also F420 (Water Spirits), F451 (Dwarfs) and F460 (Mountain Spirits) for many common motifs. F200
• Trolls. Sometimes underground spirits, sometimes also thought of as mountain-spirits. In many tales trolls are ogres. (Cf. G100, G400–G599.) F455
• Person with many ears. F511.2.3
• Person with many eyes. F512.2
• Person with many teeth. F513.1.2
• Persons with many hands. F515.0.2
• People with many arms. F516.2
• Person with many feet. F517.1.2
• Giant with many eyes. F531.1.1.5
• Many-headed giant. F531.1.2.2
• Many-headed giant – miscellaneous. F531.1.2.2.7
• Giantess with a tail (many tails). F531.1.6.14
• Person does not sleep for many months (years). F564.3
• Man with strength of many men. F610.4
• Strong man as rower: rows one side of boat against many at other. F614.4.1
• Strong hero kills many crocodiles with own hands. F628.1.4.1
• Strong man kills many men at once. F628.2.1
• Strong man kills many with hammer. F628.2.6
• Strong hero wields many weapons at once. F628.5
• Strong man swims carrying fifty (many) companions. F631.3
• Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. F645.2
• Man kills many tigers with one arrow-shot. F679.5.3
• Sunset delayed many hours. F961.1.5.3.1
• Many moons at the same time. F961.3.2
• Many-headed troll. G304.1.3
• Many-headed ogre. G361.1
• Rakshasa eats many of the domestic animals each night. G369.1.3
• Boy in ogre's house sees many human heads placed in rows: heads smile and weep. G461.1
• Wise man answers questions of many with single speech. H501.2
• Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes many out of few. (Sows grain.) H583.2.2
• How many exits from paradise? H682.3
• How many measures of water are in the river? H696.1.4
• Riddle: how many seconds in eternity? H701
• How many seconds in eternity? A bird carries a grain of sand from a mountain each century; when the whole mountain is gone, the first second of eternity has passed. (Cf. D791.1.2, H1583, X950.2, Z61.) H701.1
• Riddle: how many stars in the heavens? H702
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the grains of sand; if you don't believe it, count them yourself. H702.1
• How many stars in the heaven? Two million; if you don't believe it, count them yourself. H702.1.1
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the hairs in the head; if you don't believe it, count them yourself. H702.2
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the hairs in the goatskin (on a donkey). H702.2.1
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the points on paper; if you don't believe it, count them yourself. H702.3
• Riddle: how many hairs are in the head? H703
• How many hairs are there in the head? As many as are in the tail of my ass; if you don't believe it we will keep pulling out one hair from your beard and one from his tail. H703.1
• Riddle: how many drops in the sea. (Cf. H696.1.1.) H704
• Riddle: how many leaves are on the tree? H705
• How many leaves are on the tree? As many as there are stems for. H705.1
• How many leaves are on the tree? So and so many; and if you don't believe it, go count them. H705.2
• How many leaves are on the tree? Counterquestion: how many stars in the sky? (Cf. H702.) H705.3
• Riddle: how many days have passed since the time of Adam? H706
• How many days have passed since the time of Adam? The seven days of the week. H706.1
• Riddle: how many dead mice go to a feast? (None.) H881.1
• Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool). H1022.2
• Task: making many kinds of food from one small bird. H1022.6
• Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.) H1117
• Task: counting daily how many leaves fall off a tree. H1118.2
• Impossible task: assembling huge quantity of many-colored fleas. H1129.10.1
• Task: shepherd in God's service tending sheep and following where they go. On the way, he sees many wonderful things. (Cf. F171.0.1.) H1199.12.1
• Large boot-supply for journey. Quest is to be so long that many boots are to be worn out. H1231
• Quest for vanished wife and son. Husband seeks wife and son in many countries. H1385.3.1
• Endurance test: long dancing. Girl tires out many partners. H1501
• Rose given by supernatural wife to husband when he leaves for home will shed as many petals as times he thinks of her. H1556.4.6
• The hare with many friends. In the final test none help and only her legs save her. H1558.4
• Stones shaken in jar: difficulty in learning many dialects. J98
• Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just. J225.0.1
• God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one. J225.0.2
• Among many vain words may be found some of wisdom. J263