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Motifs — first 20 of 182
- Totemistic gods. Gods which have animal associations; e.g., Athena with the owl, Venus with the sparrow. A113
- God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati). A122
- Goddess has team of sparrows. A136.2.1
- God represented with arrow of flames. A137.14.1.1
- God's arrows. A157.2
- Cupid with arrows of lead and gold. A475.0.1
- Divine twins make selves a bow and arrow. A527.1.1
- Slave shoots arrow into leg of sun's horse. A732.2.1
- Stars from arrows shot at sky. A763.1
- Spring from roots of sacred tree when arrow is shot into it. A941.7.2
- Contours of land caused by occult hero driving harrow. A951.3
- Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.) A955.2
- Origin of bows and arrows. A1459.1.1
- 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
- Why Palmyrenes have narrow eyes. A1666.2
- Creation of sparrow. A1927
- Ant thrown from heaven: hence narrow waist. God decides dispute between ant and spider in spider's favor. (Cf. A2355.1.2.) A2214.2
- Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice. A2271.2
- Why zabi's eyes are narrow: because he laughs so hard. A2332.3.2
- Color of sparrow. (Cf. A2218) A2411.2.1.11
Episodes
Tale types
- ATU 1059* Riding on a Harrow (previously The Peasant Makes the Devil Sit on the Reversed Harrow)
- ATU 1321A Fright at the Creaking of a Wheelbarrow (Mill)
- ATU 157B The Sparrow and his Sons
- ATU 2034A* The Wormwood Does Not Want to Rock the Sparrow
- ATU 222B Quarrel between Mouse and Sparrow (previously War between Mouse and Sparrow)
- ATU 244B* The Two Starving Sparrows
- ATU 248 The Dog and the Sparrow