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- God with one hand. Hand cut or bitten off. A128.4
- Head of god bitten off by shark. A179.4
- Sun-god bitten by snake, leaves earth for heaven. A222
- Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off. A2216
- Helpful hedgehog forces snake to suck out poison from bitten raja. B511.1.3
- Cheek bitten as warning of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.5.1.16.1.) D1812.0.1.1
- Saint orders a serpent which had bitten a man to withdraw its venom. D2156.5.1
- Devil has no heels. Bitten off by wolf who was created by devil. G303.4.5.7
- Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
- Man bitten by snake fears snake-like rope. J11.1
- Leopard ashamed of having been bitten by lizard. J411.10
- Snake complains to Zeus that people step on him. Zeus: "If you had bitten the first foot that stepped on you it would not be done now." J623.1
- Bitten by the sheep. Man caught just as he knocks sheep in the head: The sheep bit me (or: I'm not going to let sheep butt me to death). J1391.3.1
- The mad wheelbarrow. Fools chain a wheelbarrow, bitten by a mad dog, lest it bite others. J1887
- Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward. J2108
- Victim persuaded to hold out tongue: bitten off. K825.1.1
- Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten. K1023.5
- Dupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killed. K1125
- Woman bitten by own fierce watchdog. K1651
- Leopard frightened away by report of lizard's presence. Lizard has bitten leopard before. K1715.5