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• Contests among the gods. A163
• Moon-god, overcome in contest with mortal, threatens to withold rain and game. A182.3.6
• God puts mortal to test. A185.13
• Contest between sun and moon. A736.11
• Mountains (hills) from ancient contest (fight). A964
• Fire producing rock result of contest between god of fire and god of rain. A975.2.1
• Devil and man throw stones in contest. A977.2.1
• Why man does not change his skin: ancient contest lost by toad, representing man, won by lizard. A1319.12.1
• Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time. A1372.7
• Man rules all animals. God gives greatest strength to lion, but because of man's wisdom lion is in his power. A1421.1.1
• The devil's animals and God's. In the contest between God and the devil, certain animals are made by each. A1751
• What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) A2236.1
• Animal characteristics: result of contest. A2250
• Cock and ptarmigan in contest: winner to live in town. (Cf. A2433.1.1, A2433.4.2, A2433.4.3.) A2250.1
• Man and tiger in contest: winner to live in town. A2250.1.1
• Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins. A2250.2
• Animal characteristics from contest in carrying. A2251
• Animal characteristics from jumping contest. A2253
• Dog burned in jumping contest over fire: enmity between dog and hare. A2253.1
• Bird characteristics from flying contests. A2254
• Animal characteristics from contest in watching. A2256
• Hare and man contest in watching for leaf to fall off tree. First one to succeed may eat other. Hare loses. A2256.1
• [First Edition: A2259. Animal characteristics from miscellaneous contests.] A2259[1st ed.]
• Elephant tricked into eating own testicles. Has them inside. (Cf. A2365.1.1.) A2284.4
• Animal characteristics result of contest between God and devil. A2286.2
• Nature of animal's testicles. A2365.1
• Why elephant has testicles inside. Persuaded to eat them. (Cf. A2284.4.) A2365.1.1
• Animal haunt established by contest (race). (Cf. A2250.1, A2252.1.) A2433.1.1
• Swiftest horse on earth. B184.1.1.3
• Magic animal used by hero in contest grows bigger with every round. B195
• Animal king chosen as result of a contest. B236.0.1
• Wren king of birds. Wins contest for kingship. (Cf. B236.1.) B242.1.2
• Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
• Animal wins contest for man. B587
• Magic horse wins jumping contest for man. B587.1
• Fly helps loathly suitor pass suitor test. B587.2
• Animal helps person pass test. B599.2
• Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun. B751.3
• Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. C636
• Tabu: hunting in hottest season. C755.6.1
• Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations. D615
• Transformation contest between magicians. D615.1
• Transformation contest between master and pupil. D615.2
• Transformation to test heroes. D645
• Transformation to test fidelity. D659.8
• Disenchantment by overcoming enchanted person in fight (contest). D716
• Disenchantment by magic contest. D785
• Disenchantment produced by hero winning series of contests with seven demons. D785.1
• Speaking vulva. Man has power to make vulvas speak. This is used as a chastity test. D1610.6.1
• Contest in magic. (Cf. H1573.3.) D1719.1
• Contest in magic between druid and saint. D1719.1.1
• Contest between druid and fairy personage. D1719.1.2
• Magic contest, magician and giant: magician would make a dog's tail crooked, the giant would straighten it – and so on, ad infinitum. D1719.1.3
• Contest between carpenter and son to race wooden horses they had both made. D1719.1.4
• (Dream of) rock-casting contest. (Cf. A966.1, D931.) D1731.3
• Contest of heat and cold. Magicians contest with each other in producing heat or cold that will overcome the other. D2144.2
• Constant replacement of fighters. In contest between gods and demons, latter are constantly slain and replaced. E155.1.1
• Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways. E221
• Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
• Ghost returns to enforce its burial wishes or to protest disregard of them. E419.8
• Test for presence of demons in corpses. E431.0.1
• Contest over souls. (Cf. E754.1.) E756
• Devils and angels contest for man's soul. E756.1
• Pixies win dancing contest with man. F302.3.4.2.1
• Giants and dwarfs in contest. F451.10.2
• Test of troll child. Snake placed in dough she is to knead. She calls it "brother". F455.10.1
• Knockers test entries and supports by tapping them with hammers. F456.1.2.2.3
• Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle. F481.0.1.1
• Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds. F488.2
• Giant in contest with man. F531.5.11
• Giant wins walking contest against man. F531.5.11.1
• Enormous testicles. F547.7
• Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests. F601.2
• Remarkably strong women defeats man in arrow and spear contest. F610.0.1.1
• Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first swords. F611.3.3
• Hero tests sword by cutting steer in two. F611.3.3.1
• Strong hero tests scythes: they break all. F611.3.3.2
• Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
• Contest between runner swift as thought and one swift as sight. Former wins. F681.3.1
• Man has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.) F1038.2
• Person lives on with intestines exposed. F1096.2
• Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness. G82.1
• Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness. G82.1.1
• Testing of witches. G277
• Witch makes man engage in dangerous contests. G292
• Devil engages in drinking contest with man for purse of gold. Gold causes man to become miser. G303.9.8.5
• Farmer has devil aid in reaping contest, loses his shadow when devil attempts to take hindmost. (Cf. K42.) G303.19.2
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Missing female poet discovered through test of poetic ability. H12.1
• Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
• Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
• Slipper test. Identification by fitting of slipper. H36.1
• High-spitting the test of a chief. H41.2
• Test of king (pope): his candle lights itself. H41.3
• Test of royalty: ability to sow, reap, and winnow rice in one day. H41.8
• Test of a god: when his image is bound it frees itself. H45.3
• Test of guilt or innocence. H210
• Guilt or innocence of souls tested by bridge. H210.1
• Voice from heaven testifies to innocence of accused. (Cf. F966.) H216.2
• Decision made by contest. H217