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• White god. A124.2
• God with long white beard and white moustache. A137.18
• Creation from duck's eggs. Upper vault from half shell, lower vault from half shell, moonbeams from whites, sunshine from yellows, starlight from motley parts, clouds from dark parts. A641.2
• Origin of white and colored races. A1614
• Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water. A1614.2
• Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter. A1614.4.3
• Indians and whites from different legs of first man. A1614.7
• Origin of white man. A1614.9
• How the white man got his beard. A1661.1
• Why the white man has short hair. A1661.2
• Creation of white horse. Man takes skin of horse and substitutes a white bedspread. A1881.1
• Buffalo helps tiger quench fire: white mark left on buffalo's neck where tiger held on while being ducked in water. A2211.12
• Fox struck with churn-dash: hence white tail. (Cf. A2378.8.1.) A2215.5
• Ravens show Adam how to bury dead: are born with white feathers. A2223.7
• Devil's animals devour God's. God makes white fish, devil a pike to eat it up; God a worm, devil a frog to eat it, etc. (Cf. A1751.) A2286.2.1
• Why young ravens have white feathers. A2313.5
• Why the cock's comb becomes white when he is angry. A2321.10.1
• Why deer has white mark on nose. From white ashes. A2335.2.1
• Why end of fox's tail is white. (Cf. A2215.5.) A2378.8.1
• Why weasel is white with dark tip to tail. A2411.1.2.1
• White markings on deer. A2412.1.1
• Why kangaroo-rat has white band around his body. (Cf. A2218.4.) A2412.1.4
• Why elephant has white marks on its body. A2412.1.5
• Why white crow is dumb. A2422.3
• [First Edition: A2494.5.31. Enmity between white fish and pike. (See A2286.1.1.)] A2494.5.31[1st ed.]
• Why white ants are a pest. A2522.3
• Thistle serves as milk-cup for Virgin Mary: white spots on leaves. A2711.4.2
• Why birch has white bark. A2751.4.1
• Why bark of saja and tinsa is white. A2751.4.4
• Dragon from transformed horse. White horse plunges into water and is changed into a dragon. B11.1.2
• Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.) B15.7.2
• Mythical white albatross. B30.1
• Three sea-cows: one red, one white, one black. B72.1
• Mermaid has white skin. B81.9.5.1
• Magic white cow. B184.2.0.1
• Magic white cows with red ears. B184.2.0.1.1
• Brilliantly white cow comes to be milked for infant saint. B251.2.10.1
• Striped horse with purple mane and white feet. B731.2.3
• Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black. B731.4
• Cow with white ears. B731.4.1
• Hound half white, half green. B731.6.1
• Snake avoids white ash. B765.18.1
• Bite of white she-mule causes certain death. B766.4
• Tabu: seeing herd red-headed and white-starred. C316.1
• Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
• Transformation: white person to negro. (Cf. D57) D31
• Black man's color altered to white. D57.2
• Transformation: white rat to white-winged elephant. D411.2.1
• Transformation: pill to white rabbit. D444.3
• White chasuble suddenly turned into red. D454.3.1.1
• Cock's comb becomes white. D492.1
• White as magic color. D1293.3
• Magic leaves turn white bird black. (Cf. D955, A2411.2.6.) D1337.2.1
• White ash stick held before snakes causes them to flee. D1447.3
• Oil comes out of sacred white stone. (Cf. D931.) D1482.1
• Flesh of white cow with red ears as only cure for mysterious illness. (Cf. D1032.) D1500.1.33.2
• Bath in milk of white, hornless cows as antidote for poison. D1515.3
• Magic white, red and yellow stone causes hail, sunshine or fire, according to which side is scratched. (Cf. D931.) D1540.2
• Treasure found by sprinkling ground with blood of white cock. (Cf. D1314.) D2101.1
• White elephant can make rain fall. D2143.1.13
• Cooked part of white cow is brown after resuscitation. E33.1
• Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. E211.1
• Ghost in white. E422.4.3
• Revenant as white horse. E423.1.3.4
• Revenant as lady in white. E425.1.1
• White horse in wild hunt. E501.4.2.1
• Wild huntsmen dressed in white. E501.8.3
• Wild huntsman with black fur cap and white staff. E501.8.6
• Ghost touches man's hat, scorching it and turning lock of his hair white. E542.4
• Soul as black or white spirit over coffin. Black if condemned. Can be seen by peeping between horse's ears. E722.1.1
• Soul as black or white entity. Black if condemned. E722.1.2
• Severed head reddens and whitens. E783.3
• White sheep carries to upper world, black to lower. F67
• Objects on one side of palisade in otherworld garden black, on other white. F162.1.2.3
• Fairies fair (fine, white). F233.6
• Fairies in white clothes. F236.1.3
• Fairies ride white horses. F241.1.1.1
• Fairies give man white powder to cure mortals, replenish his supply whenever needed. F344.3
• Demons live in white cliff with hole in it. (Cf. F460) F402.6.4
• Water-spirit as man clothed in white and accompanied by a dozen attendants. F420.1.1.4
• Water-spirits are dressed in white. F420.1.6.6.4
• Dwarfs have silvery white hair. F451.2.4.2
• Dwarfs clad in white. F451.2.7.4
• Dwarf cave has ceiling of mineral white as snow. F451.4.3.3
• Mountain-men in white caps. F460.1.4.1
• Brown man with white back. F527.4
• One cheek white, other red. F545.3.1
• Person with white knee. F548.1.1
• Remarkably pretty white feet. F551.3
• Remarkably pretty white hands. F552.3
• Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day. F555.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. F647.6
• White sea. F711.3.1
• Islands of extraordinary color. Green, white, etc. F741
• White mango tree. F811.3.2
• Glorified white garments. F821.6
• Troops of black, white, and red soldiers. One-third of an army of each. F873.1
• Book written with black fire on white fire (in God's lap). F883.1.2
• Black sheep turn white. (Cf. H1023.6.) F985.1
• Color of flame indicates what is burning. Blue for furniture, white for money, red for person. F1061.2