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• Devil and God create animals. Wolf created as God's dog. The devil creates goats to destroy things. A63.4
• Dog (wolf)-god. A132.8
• Culture hero suckled by wolf. A511.2.2.1
• Wolf in hell. A671.2.6
• River from the slaver of the Fenris-wolf. A933.1
• Odin battles Fenris Wolf at end of world. (Cf. A1070.) A1082.2
• Other gods battle Fenris wolf at end of world. A1082.2.1
• Dog created as watch-dog for Jesus. Jesus, left to watch the herd, creates the dog to drive off the wolf. A1831.1
• Creation of wolf. (Cf. A1751.) A1833
• Devil makes wolf; God gives him life. (Cf. A1755.) A1833.1
• Wolf from man transformed by magician. (Cf. A1710.) A1833.2
• Wolf as God's dog. A1833.3
• Wolf falls out of nest: cause of straight back. (Cf. A2356.2.2.) A2211.3
• Wolf's body made smaller. (Cf. A2213.1.) A2302.5
• Origin of wolf's skin. (Cf. A2210.) A2311.3
• Why the wolf's muzzle is black. A2335.4.5
• Why wolf has straight back. (Cf. A2211.3.) A2356.2.2
• Why he-goat has shaggy legs. Braved the wolf, who tore his legs. A2371.2.8
• How wolf got long tail. (Cf. A2215.1; Cf. A2262.) A2378.3.3
• Why wolf lives in woods. A2433.3.14
• Food of wolf. Man. A2435.3.4
• Why wolf is thief. A2455.1
• Friendship between wolf and ass. A2493.15
• Enmity between lion and wolf. A2494.7.2
• Wolf granted patent of nobility. A2546.2
• Giant devastating wolf overcome by hero. B16.2.4
• Man-wolf. B29.5
• Speaking wolf. B211.2.4
• Wolf as king of animals. B240.10
• Wolf swears by God. B251.7.1
• Saint's prayer causes wolf to bring back child. B256.8
• Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. B256.11
• Alliance of dog and wolf. B267.1
• Wolf executed for thefts. B275.1.3
• Man hangs wolf who has eaten sheep left in his charge. B275.1.3.1
• Wedding of wolf. B281.3
• Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock. B381.1
• Saint cures the blind young ones of a hyena or wolf by the sign of the cross and the application of his saliva. (Cf. D1500.1.8.1.) The animal mother is grateful. B384
• Helpful wolf. B435.3
• Wolf defends master's child against serpent. B524.1.4
• She-wolf as nurse for child. B535.0.9
• She-wolf cares for baby exposed in the forest. B535.0.11
• Wolf-tail blankets. Wolves shelter man with their tails. B538.2
• Wolf carries man. B557.15
• Lion kills wolf who has killed mistress' sheep. B591.1
• Marriage to wolf. B601.16
• Wolf and wolverine fight over girl. B621.8
• Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. B635.2
• Marriage to wolf in human form. B651.6
• Wolf strongly attracted to his own children. B751.6
• Lion (wolf) protects the saint's body. B773.3
• The musician in the wolf-trap: meets wolf already trapped, and saves himself by playing music. (Cf. K551.3.1.) B848.1
• Tabu: looking at werewolf. C311.1.4
• Tabu: chief to be in large company without wolf-hounds. C564.3
• Wer-tiger. Like werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.) D112.2.1
• Transformation: man to wolf. D113.1
• Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form. D113.1.1
• God (goddess) assumes form of a wolf. D113.1.2
• Wer-bear. A bear-man like the werwolf. D113.2.1
• Transformation: wolf to man. D313.2
• Transformation: wolf to object. D421.1
• Transformation: wolf to tree. D421.1.1
• Transformation by striking wolf-skin glove. D566.1
• Transformation to werwolf every Friday night. D622.1
• Magic wolf heart. D1015.1.4
• Eating serpent's and wolf's flesh makes courageous and impetuous. (Cf. D1032.) D1358.1.2
• Axe driven into house entrance keeps werwolf out. (Cf. D1206.) D1385.5.2
• Saint forces a beast (leopard, wolf) to bring back stolen child (domestic animal) to his mother (owner). D2156.3
• Wolf is forced by saint to be substitute for eaten calf. D2156.8
• Revenant as wolf. E423.2.7
• Reincarnation as wolf. E612.2
• Separable soul in wolf. E715.4.2
• Wandering soul assumes shape of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.1, E731.) E721.5.1
• Soul in form of wolf. E731.9
• Fairy in form of wolf. F234.1.13
• Giant as wolf. F531.1.8.1
• Giants have wolf and bears as dogs. F531.4.11.1
• Sword with image of wolf or serpent. F833.7
• Fetter for Fenris wolf. Made of sound caused by the footfall of cats, beards of women, roots of mountains, sinews of bears, breath of fish, and spittle of birds. F864.1
• Witch in form of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.) G211.2.2
• Witch rides on wolf. G241.1.1
• Devil in form of wolf. G303.3.3.2.1
• Devil has only one foot. The wolf which he made has eaten the other. G303.4.5.1.1
• Devil has no heels. Bitten off by wolf who was created by devil. G303.4.5.7
• Wolf eats the devil; therefore, devil no longer lives in the world. G303.17.3.3
• Wolf is the devil's craftiest enemy. G303.25.1
• Wolf as ogre. G352.1
• Recognition of disenchanted person by thread in his teeth. As werwolf he has torn woman's apron and caught thread in teeth. H64.1
• Werwolf killed and recognized by man's clothes under the wolf's skin or rosary on the neck. H64.2
• Identification by wolf's hair. H75.5
• Recognition by knife. Man who is werwolf recognized by knife which was carried away by the wolf. H132
• Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
• Test: guessing nature of certain skin – wolf-skin. H522.1.2
• What four things are hardest to hold? Wolf by eyebrows, bear by claws, snake by tail, hawk by beak. H659.2.1
• Riddle: what animal is not good living or dead? (Wolf.) H841.4
• Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.) H1072
• Quest for wolf's milk. H1361.3
• Blind man who feels young wolf recognises his savage nature. J33
• Well-trained kid does not open to wolf. J144
• Hostile dogs made friendly by having them fight common enemy, the wolf. J145