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• God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati). A122
• God's voice. A139.5
• God's voice shatters mountain. A139.5.1
• God's voice causes thunder. A139.5.2
• 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
• Creator's (deity's) voice makes thunder. A1142.1
• Why women have a treble voice. A1372.4
• Swallows torment Christ on cross: lose voice. (Cf. A2422.9.) A2231.2.2
• Peacock has snake carry devil into paradise: cursed with ugly voice and feet. (Cf. A2375.2.2, A2423.1.2.) A2236.2.2
• Partridge's voice borrowed from tortoise. A2241.3
• Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice. A2271.2
• Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. A2420
• How animal got voice. A2421
• How night-swallow got voice. A2421.1
• How woodcock got voice. Traded with turkey. (Cf. A2247). A2421.2
• Where crow got voice. Traded with thunder-bird. (Cf. A2247). A2421.3
• How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241). A2421.4
• How quail got voice. A2421.4.1
• How nkundak got voice. (Cf. A2223.2.) A2421.5
• Voice of peewit. A2421.7
• How animal lost voice (or power of speech). A2422
• Why tortoise has no voice. (Cf. A2421.4.) A2422.4
• Why fly has no voice. A2422.5
• Why swallows lost voice. (Cf. A2231.2.2.) A2422.9
• General quality of animal's voice. A2423
• Animal's ugly voice. A2423.1
• Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (Cf. A2245.1.) A2423.1.1
• Peacock's ugly voice. (Cf. A2236.2.2.) A2423.1.2
• Loon's ugly voice. A2423.1.3
• Origin of snail's monotonous voice. A2423.1.6
• Animal's pleasing voice. A2423.2
• Thrush's beautiful voice. Exchanged with woodcock. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2245.1.) A2423.2.1
• Cuckoo's sweet voice. A2423.2.2
• Bird reveals dead rider. Calls out in human voice at seeing living woman riding behind dead man. B131.4
• Cock hears inaudible voice of dying man. B733.2.1
• Unique prohibition announced by mysterious voice. C601
• Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. C811
• Tabu: heeding persuasive voice of magic drum. Not to pick up drum that says "take me". C811.1
• Petrification when woman's voice is heard. D529.1
• Damsel whose voice turns her suitors to stone. D581.1
• Magic object pointed out by divine voice. D849.7
• Voice comes forth from tree, revealing truth. D1316.5.1
• Truth-telling voice in wall warns against poisoned food. D1317.4.1
• Mad horse becomes tame when girl's voice reaches his ears. D1442.1.1
• Voice issues from ruby. (Cf. D1071.) D1610.27.2
• Jewel responds to owner's voice. (Cf. D1070.) D1651.13
• Magic power from heavenly voice. D1739.2
• Divination from sound of voice. D1812.5.0.11
• Magic carrying power of voice. D1921
• Resuscitation by heavenly voice. E136
• Voice of son answers his mother from the grave only when called by his pet name. E324.1
• Money received from ghosts as reward for bravery. A voice says: "I am letting it fall." The man: "Let it." Money falls to the ground. E373.1
• Voices of dead heard from graveyard. E401
• Ghostly voice heard on battlefield. (Cf. E502, F418.) E401.0.1
• Lost fairy child found by mortals. Mortals feed, warm it, keep it until one day it hears voice calling: "Coleman Grey!" It leaves with the remark "Ho! ho! ho! My Daddy's come!" F329.4.1
• Fairy leaves when druid utters spell that drowns her voice. F381.6
• Mysterious voice – water-spirit – is calling from sea. F420.1.5.2
• Mysterious voice announces death of Pan. F442.1
• Voice of dwarfs (echo). F451.2.8
• Remarkable voice. (Cf. X937). F556
• Voice made rough by swallowing hot iron. F556.1
• Voice made smooth by swallowing hot iron. F556.1.1
• Voice made smooth by having ant bite tongue. F556.1.2
• Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
• Voice changed by medicine. F556.3
• Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. F556.4
• Blind tiger recognizes by man's voice that he is a hypocrite. F655.2
• Man with marvelous voice. F688
• Man's voice shakes heavens. F688.1
• Voice heard over whole land. F688.3
• Voices from heaven (or from the air). F966
• Madness from hearing prophetic voice from air. F1041.8.8
• Eye bursts forth from overstrain of voice. F1085
• Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.) G72.4
• Devil speaks with voice of a he-goat. G303.4.7
• Devil comes out of man when monk recognizes devil's voice in man. G303.16.19.7
• Ogre disguises voice to lure victim. G413
• Recognition of captive's voice brings about rescue from ogre. Usually captive sings in the bag. G556
• Recognition by voice. H79.3
• Voice from heaven testifies to innocence of accused. (Cf. F966.) H216.2
• Animals compete as messenger to call father of new-born child. Their voices are tried. H483
• What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) H842.3
• Task: showing picture of a voice. H1033
• Recognition of good health by hearing voice. H1582.1
• Kite tries to neigh like a horse. Loses his voice and gains nothing. J512.2
• Ass tries to get a cricket's voice. Asks crickets what they eat to get such a voice. They answer, "dew." He tries it and starves. J512.8
• Bird hears voices from within unhatched eggs and flies away: voices plot to dine on their bird-mother when they are born. J646.2
• Mutual and undeserved compliments: donkey to camel, "What a beauty you are"; latter answers, "What a sweet voice you have." J867
• Ass in lion's skin unmasked when he raises his voice. J951.1
• Crow tries to prophesy like raven: detected by his voice. J951.3
• How far his voice will reach. A numskull cries from a tower and then runs away to see how far his voice will reach. J1941
• Waiting for the thieves to return for invoice of goods stolen. J2214.3.3
• The bathroom in the minaret. The fool can sing in the small bathroom but cannot be heard from the minaret. He wants a bathroom built on the minaret so that his voice will carry. J2237
• Healing with the cherry tree. A man whose wife refuses to talk remembers that a priest drank black cherry juice whenever he lost his voice. He cannot get the cordial but concluding that a limb of the cherry tree will have the same effect beats his wife with is. She is cured. J2412.5
• Thief disguises voice and is allowed access to goods (children). K311.3
• Town crier is frightened by the voice of a cleric robbing a grave. K335.0.8
• Capture by imitation of animal's voice. K756
• Bird catches fishes by imitating voice of friend. K756.3
• Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted. K934
• Thief climbing rope discovered and rope cut. He has tricked the guardian of the food-supply in the tree (by imitation of the owner's voice or the discovered pass-word) to let down the rope. K1622