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Motifs — first 20 of 30
- Fanciful dangers from animals. B766
- Tabu: speaking to strangers. C492
- Tabus of strangers. C576
- Tabu: entertaining strangers. C745
- Forest of Dangers (Wonders). F812.3
- Cycnus. Cuts off heads of strangers in order to build temple of heads. G315
- Rakshasa. Dog or ape-shaped; red hair and eyes; mouth reaching from ear to ear; ears pointed like spears; shape-changers; cannibals; three heads, five feet, four eyes, no fingers, bear-neck, horns. Attack women. G369.1
- Strangers umpire beauty contest. H1596.2
- Birds having learned their possible dangers are forced from nest by mother. J65
- Seducer about to seduce mother of child refrains when child wisely remarks that he is sad because his father has left his mother exposed to such dangers. J122.1
- King refuses to exile gossipers. They would defame him among strangers. At home they serve to test the king's patience and to reform his life. J215.1.2
- Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. J390
- One's own kind preferred to strangers. J416
- Physician willing to believe in four persons. Angers a theologian by disputing doctrine of the Trinity. "Don't get angry," he says; "rather than have you condemn me to hell, I would believe in four persons." J817.2
- Animals retort concerning their dangers. J1420
- Goat chewing cud angers fool, who thinks goat is mimicking him. J1835
- Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. K1345
- Man coveting his friend's wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her. K1394
- Incognito king rewards strangers who treat him as companion. K1812.13
- Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height. K1975