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- God (Indra) has palace on Milky Way. A151.6.1
- God in sea of milk. A151.8
- Milk of the gods. A154.4
- Origin of the Milky Way. A778
- Milky Way a hunting party. A778.1
- Milky Way is the Wild Hunt. A778.1.1
- Milky Way as a road. A778.2
- Milky Way as path of souls (demons). A778.2.1
- Milky Way as a river. A778.3
- Milky Way as a stitched seam in the sky. A778.4
- Milky Way as milk from breast of a woman. A778.5
- Milky Way as the sperma of the gods. A778.6
- Milky Way as path of a bird of passage. A778.7
- Milky Way is smoke (ashes). A778.8
- Milky Way as race track. A778.9
- Abyss at end of Milky Way. A778.10
- Lake of milk by tree of life. A878.2
- Lake of milk formed through virtue of saint. A920.1.13
- Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
- Snake sucks milk from woman's breast. A2435.6.2.1
- Plant from mother's milk. A2615.2
- Thistle serves as milk-cup for Virgin Mary: white spots on leaves. A2711.4.2
- Plant characteristics from Virgin Mary's milk. A2731.2.1.1
- How banyan got its milk. A2791.3
- Dragon is fond of milk. B11.12.4
- Dragon is fed great quantities of milk to keep him pacified. B11.12.4.1
- Milk-producing bird. B36
- Animal giving treasure as milk. B103.3
- Goat giving coins instead of milk. B103.3.1
- Location of settlement at place a cow stops and where milk flows by itself. B155.2.2
- Magic cow gives extraordinary milk. B184.2.1.1
- Magic cow gives red milk. B184.2.1.1.1
- Magic cow gives impossible quantity of milk. B184.2.1.1.2
- Magic bull can be milked. B184.2.3.2
- Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints. B184.2.3.3
- Cow gives twelve measures of milk for the twelve apostles of Ireland. B251.2.10
- Brilliantly white cow comes to be milked for infant saint. B251.2.10.1
- Doe furnishes man milk. B292.3
- Faithful cows lose milk at king's death. B301.6.3
- Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle. B391.1
- Cobra grateful to prince for milk. B391.1.1
- Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk. B391.1.2
- Snake grateful for pouring milk into its hole. B391.1.3
- Cow grateful for being milked. (Cf. B411.) B394
- Helpful mare cools boiling bath for master. Hero is made to bathe in boiling mare's milk. His mare blows on the milk and cools it. B526.2
- Unusual milking animal. B531.2
- Does, tigresses, she-wolves milked into pond, which becomes a pond of milk. B531.2.1
- Cow gives marvelous supply of milk through virtue of saint. B597
- Clever and swift horse fed with worms' milk on the gold mountain Tecklen in India. B710.2.1
- Bird gives milk. B735
- Snake milks cows at night. B765.4
- Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. B765.4.1
- Snake eats milk and bread with child. B765.6
- Snake drinks milk. B765.6.1
- Snake (frog) in human body enticed out by milk (water). B784.2.1.1
- Tabu: eating thick milk. C229.1
- Eating meat with milk. (Cf. C271). C229.5
- Tabu: tasting milk of "cow of plenty", dedicated to the gods. C241.1
- Tabu: drinking milk. C271
- Transformation: water monster to Milky Way. D429.1
- Transformation: milk sack to other object. D454.5
- Transformation: milk sack to sheet of water. D454.5.1
- Transformation: blood to milk. Bird caught and told to make milk bleeds and blood turns to milk. D457.1.2
- Transformation: milk to blood. D457.2
- Transformation: milk to stone. D471.4.1
- Transformation: butter (milk) to blood. D474.5
- Rock changed into milk. D476.1.7
- Milk transformed into other substance. D476.2.3
- Milk transformed into blood. D476.2.3.1
- Milk transformed into lye. D476.2.3.2
- Transformation: water to milk. D478.1
- Transformation in order to drive buffaloes to milking. D659.13
- Disenchantment from bird when queen milks own milk into bird's beak. (Cf. D764.1.) D759.2
- Disenchantment by drinking milk of queen who has borne two boys. (Cf. D759.2.) D764.1
- Disenchantment by bathing in milk. D766.4
- Lake of milk created through merit of saint. D921.3.1
- Miraculous well yielding milk, beer or wine. D925.0.2
- Spring augments milk of nursing mothers who drink its water. D927.3
- Magic milk of animal. D1018
- Milk as magic drink. D1043
- Milk as magic strengthening drink. (Cf. D1043.) D1335.2.3
- Milk gives magic beauty. When magic milk touches ugly girl she turns beautiful. (Cf. D1018.) D1337.1.3
- Bathing hair in buffalo milk makes it unusually long. D1337.1.3.1
- Bath in magic milk rejuvenates. (Cf. D1080.) D1338.4
- Magic milk produces immunity from hunger and thirst. (Cf. D1018.) D1349.1.3
- "Milk-medicine" causes milk to appear in woman's breast. (Cf. D1241.) D1379.5
- Milk of two king's children protects hero in dragon fight. (Cf. B11.11, D1043.) D1385.14
- Charm makes cows give plenty of milk. (Cf. D1273.) D1449.1
- Magic healing milk. (Cf. D1018.) D1500.1.33.1
- Cures by the milk of the mothers of saints. (Cf. D1500.1.10.) D1500.1.33.1.1
- Magic healing milk of lioness. (Cf. D1018.) D1500.1.33.1.2
- Magic pool of milk heals wounds. D1503.7.1
- Bath in milk of white, hornless cows as antidote for poison. D1515.3
- Much butter made from little milk by power of saint. D1573.1
- Magic bag sucks milk from cows. It is commanded by a witch. (Cf. D1193, D2083.3.) D1605.2
- Idol drinks up milk. (Cf. D1268.) D1633.1
- Inexhaustible milk. (Cf. D1018.) D1652.3
- Cow with inexhaustible milk. D1652.3.1
- Goat with inexhaustible milk. D1652.3.2
- Inexhaustible pitcher of milk. D1652.5.4.1