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Motifs — first 20 of 391
- God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. A52.0.8
- Satan attempts to create another world. A63.8
- God born of another god's sweat. A114.1.1.1
- One sun-god for night; another for day (Osiris, Horus). A227.2
- In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
- Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up. A724.1.1
- Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
- One mountain in love with another stretches leg out to meet her: origin of a mountain chain. A965.1
- Persons excluded from Noah's ark build another ark and sail to Ireland. A1021.0.1
- End of world when stars in one constellation overtake those in another. A1051.2
- Why one people is superior in power to another. A1689.11
- Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
- Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. A2240
- Animal characteristics: borrowing and not returning. Animal borrows a member (or quality) from another and refuses to return it. (Cf. A2242, A2313.3, A2345.1, A2351.3, A2375.2.1, A2421.4, A2435.4.1.) A2241
- Animal characteristics: stolen from another animal. (Cf. A2313.3, A2375.2.2.) A2245
- Animal characteristics learned from another animal. A2271
- Dog loses his patent right; seeks it: why dogs look at one another under the tail. (Cf. A2471.1.) A2275.5.5
- Why dogs look at one another under tail. (Cf. A2275.5.5, A2232.8; also *Dh IV 129ff.) A2471.1
- Why dogs sniff at one another. A2471.1.1
- Why hogs inspect one another: seek pancake. (Cf. A2275.5.1.) A2471.2
Tale types
- ATU 121 Wolves Climb on Top of One Another (previously Wolves Climb on Top of One Another to Tree)
- ATU 1291 One Cheese Sent to Bring Back Another
- ATU 1316 Mistaking One Animal for Another (previously Rabbit Thought to be a Cow)
- ATU 1525E Thieves Steal from One Another (previously The Thieves and their Pupil)
- ATU 1834* The Person from Another Congregation
- ATU 200B Why Dogs Sniff at One Another
- ATU 20A Animals Caught in a Pit Eat One Another Up (previously The Animals are Caught in a Pit)
- ATU 293E* The Grains Talk with One Another
- ATU 763 The Treasure Finders who Murder One Another
- ATU 78 Animal Tied to Another for Safety (previously Animal Allows himself to be Tied to Another for Safety)