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- Bear's den. A2432.6
- The bear's enemies. (Cf. A2494.10.3.) A2494.8
- The Bear's Son. Human son of woman who marries a bear acquires bear characteristics. (Cf. B601.1.) B635.1
- Bear's foster child not used to sun and light. B635.1.2
- "Bear's food." To urge on his horses a man threatens them with the bear, calling them "bear's food." The bear hears and comes for them. C25
- Quest for bear's milk. H1361.2
- Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
- The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
- Escape by dressing in bear's skin. K521.1.2
- Helper dressed in bear's skin helps to escape. K649.7.2
- Bread accidentally dropped from tree on bear's nose kills bear. N331.2
- Rescue of woman from bear's cave. R111.1.13.1
- Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1
- Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tail. X1133.4
- Lie: cat scratches out bear's tongue. X1211.1
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