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Motifs — first 20 of 97
- God represented with lightning flashes as sword. A137.14.4
- Lightning flashes from armpits of hero. A526.9
- Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun. A751.5.2
- Moon wants to marry his sister the sun. She is angered and throws hot ashes on his face. A751.5.2.1
- Milky Way is smoke (ashes). A778.8
- Flood from broken calabashes of water. A1016.4
- Why the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire. A1115.3
- Man created from ashes (cinders). A1268
- Origin of eyelashes. A1315.6
- Mosquitoes from ashes of bad woman. (Cf. A2001.) A2034.3
- Why deer has white mark on nose. From white ashes. A2335.2.1
- Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked. A2462.2
- Cat leaps through man like arrow of fire and burns him to ashes. B16.1.1.2
- Serpent reduces man to a heap of ashes by its fiery gaze. B765.14.1
- Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu. C927.2
- Transformation: man to ashes. D286
- Transformation: ashes into animals. D441.6.1
- Transformation: ashes to gold. D475.1.1.1
- Transformation: money to ashes (leaves). D475.2.3
- Transformation: sugar to ashes. D476.2.4