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Motifs — first 20 of 22
- Bamboo goddess. A435.1
- All the kinds of seed in a bamboo that culture hero cuts down. A1425.1
- Origin of bamboo. A2681.6
- Why the bamboo has nodes. A2756
- Transformation: butterfly to bamboo. D424.1
- Transformation: sections of bamboo to persons. D431.10
- Magic bamboo tree. D950.15
- Soul in bamboo. E711.2.6
- Life token: bamboo stalks grow with joints upside down. E761.3.1
- Crab carries in his ear cat, tiger, bamboos, river. F982.8
- The homesick wave. Numskulls try to take home a wave of the sea in a bamboo rod. At home when it refuses to wave they say that it is homesick for its mother, the sea. J1875.3
- Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
- Contest with magician in bringing grain out of closed bamboo: trickster brings culm-borers to make holes. K69.1
- Sale of alleged oracular bamboo cup. K114.4
- Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
- Trickster lends bamboo on condition that it is returned exactly as it is. K196.3
- Jackal in tiger's house has permission to sit with tail hanging down between bamboo stems. Enlarges gap thus made and escapes. K563.1
- Dupe wishing to learn to play flute puts tongue in split bamboo. K1111.0.1.1
- Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind. K2033
- Buffalo's fate in bamboo growing from head. N119.2