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• Animal substituted for human sacrifice. A1545.2
• 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
• 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
• Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. F1002
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Combat won by means of substituted weapons. K97.2
• 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
• Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster. K476.6
• 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
• Object substituted for murdered person so as to allay suspicion. K525.3
• Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
• 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
• 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
• Moorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark). K1317.8
• 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
• Bear (tiger) substituted for woman in floating box; kills villain who tries to steal the woman. (Cf. K1625.) K1674
• Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate. K1843
• Wife takes mistress's place in bed but is deceived in turn. Husband had tired of the mistress and had previously substituted servant. K1843.2.2
• Husband deceives wife with substituted bedmate. K1844
• Groom deceives bride with substituted bedmate and hides self in order to learn the secret she has promised to tell. K1844.3
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• Substituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the message. K1851
• Sleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.) K1852
• Inferior animals substituted in sacrifice. K1853.1
• Younger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive father. K1855
• The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife. K1911
• Old woman substituted for bride in bridegroom's bed. K1911.1.5
• Handsome man substituted for ugly as bridegroom: wins bride. K1915.3
• Substituted children. K1920
• Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
• Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger. K2112.1.1
• Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substituted. K2115
• Stone substituted for newly-born babies. K2115.2.1
• Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) K2117
• Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
• Substituted sword. Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity. T247.1
• Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot). T318