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• Animal substituted for human sacrifice. A1545.2
• Creation of white horse. Man takes skin of horse and substitutes a white bedspread. A1881.1
• Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small". C433
• Substitutes for tabu expressions. C490.1
• "Save it for the beggar" (substitute for "save it for tomorrow". You may be dead by tomorrow.) C490.1.1
• Stepson cursed to stick in grave mound till pretty girl wants to substitute for him. D5.1.1
• Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
• Death postponed if substitute can be found. D1855.2
• Wolf is forced by saint to be substitute for eaten calf. D2156.8
• Ghost substitutes for bride on her wedding journey. E363.1.1
• Substituted eyes. Lost eyes are replaced by those of another person or animal. (Cf. F512.1.4.) E781.1
• Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs and successfully uses them. E782.0.1
• Substituted hand. Man exchanges his hand for that of another. E782.1.1
• Substituted ribs (chariot ribs). E782.2
• Substituted arm. Injured arm replaced by another. (Cf. A128.4.1.) E782.3.1
• Substituted leg. Injured leg replaced by another. E782.4.1
• Substituted tongue. E782.5
• Substituted skin. E785.1
• Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. F321.1
• Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute. F322.1
• Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. F1002
• Witches use eyes of animals to travel at night. They leave their own eyes at home, substitute those of an animal. (Cf. E781.1.) G249.10.1
• Recognition of maidservant substitute bride by her habitual conversation. H38.2.3
• Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
• Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
• King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth. J1189.3
• Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
• Substitute for candle repaid with substitute for money. A monk gives a man a stick instead of the candle the man has wanted to burn before a holy picture. The monk says that it will have the same effect as if the candle were burned. The man takes out his purse and lets the monk touch it. J1551.5
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) J2321.1
• How did the cow get on the pole? A fool hides his purse on a pole on a cliff. A rascal substitutes cow-dung for the money. The fool is interested only in how the cow could have reached the purse. J2382
• The eye-juggler. A trickster sees a man throwing his eyes into the air and replacing them. He also receives this power but he must not use the power beyond a specified number of times. When he does so, he loses his eyes. He usually gets animal eyes as substitutes. J2423
• Substitute in contest. K3
• Relative substitutes in contest. K3.1
• Young knight substitutes for old man in tournament. K3.2
• Supernatural substitute in tournament for pious warrior. K3.2.1
• Woman substitutes for husband in combat. K3.3
• Race won by deception: rabbit as "little son" substitute. A man challenged by an ogre to a running race persuades the ogre to race with his little son instead. By this he means a rabbit. (Cf. K12.2, K15.1.) K11.6
• Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight. K18.3
• Shooting contest won by deception: bird substituted for arrows. K31.3
• Hero to eat iron grains. Substitutes soft food. K63.1
• Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
• Combat won by means of substituted weapons. K97.2
• The castration bargain: wife sent. The trickster castrates the dupe and is to come the next day and be castrated himself. He sends his wife as substitute. K241
• Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps. K331.3
• The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
• Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1
• Rock substituted for ham by trickster. K476.1.1
• Priests substitute gilded images of calves for those of solid gold. K476.4.1
• Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster. K476.6
• Compassionate executioner: bloody knife (sword) from slain animal substitute. K512.1.1
• Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
• Compassionate executioner: substituted brains (other animal for helpful animal). K512.2.0.1
• Eyes of animal substituted as proof for eyes of children. K512.2.0.2
• Eyes, ears, fingers of corpse substituted for those demanded of victim. K512.2.0.3
• Animal substituted for child served at meal. K512.2.1
• Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead. K512.2.2
• Compassionate executioner: substituted puppet drowned. K512.2.3
• Compassionate executioner: substituted head (made of clay) as proof of execution. K512.2.3.1
• Compassionate executioner: mutilation substituted for death. K512.2.4
• Girl substituted for boy to avoid slaughter by father. K514.1
• Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim. K525
• Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes. K525.1
• Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom. K525.1.2
• In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block. K525.1.3
• Object substituted for murdered person so as to allay suspicion. K525.3
• Escape, leaving dog as substitute. K525.6
• Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute. K528
• Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for him. K528.1
• Escape by substituting self for another condemned to die. Holy man substitutes self for deacon held by heathen. K528.2
• Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
• Fool's brothers substitute a goat for the body of the man he has killed: thus save him. K661.1
• Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. K841
• Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. Report that man executed just then will be king in heaven. K841.1
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) K842
• Raja substitutes himself for condemned man. Made to believe that this will take him to heaven. K842.4
• God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father. K1094.1
• Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. K1223
• Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed. K1223.1
• Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge. K1223.2
• Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. K1223.2.1
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor. K1223.4
• Priest draws a sow to him instead of a woman. He asks for a pubic hair which will draw the woman to him. Sow's bristles substituted. Sow rushes to church. K1281.1
• Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. K1317.2.2
• Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bed. K1317.3
• Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. K1317.4
• Woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark. K1317.5
• Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. K1317.6.1
• Moorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark). K1317.8
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1515
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. The hero and heroine change places in bed with the ogre's children and put on them their caps so that the ogre is deceived. K1611
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1
• Substituted arrows. Hero given arrows with soft points and sent after dangerous enemies. The deception discovered and the enemy discomfited. K1617
• The order for six loads of snow. The order is given by the king in winter. The courtier waits until summer to present the order. Gets money as substitute. K1661
• Bear (tiger) substituted for woman in floating box; kills villain who tries to steal the woman. (Cf. K1625.) K1674
• Wife substitutes for princess, who has been jailed with husband. Before judge says: "What harm is there in a man being with his own wife?" K1814.2