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Motifs — first 20 of 26
- Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns. A751.1.4
- Creation in covered vessel. Men (or animals) created in a basket or from a bundle, or from under a blanket. A1295
- Origin of death from unwise choice. Choice between two bundles, one containing tempting articles, the other everlasting life. People choose the large bundle and lose everlasting life. A1335.3
- Why ants carry large bundles. (Cf. A2221.4.) A2451.1
- Transformation: writing tablets to bundle. D454.11
- Bundle of wood magically acts as riding horse. D1523.3
- Ghost sails over sound on bundle of straw. E581.7
- Fairy in form of a bundle of rags. F234.3.3
- Devil in form of ungainly bundle. G303.3.4.10
- Chief in disguise carries bundle so large that rank is recognized. H41.10
- Task: making sails for ship from one bundle of linen; countertask: making spindle and loom from one stick of wood. (Cf. H951.) H1022.3
- Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. H1023.19
- Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
- The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
- The inventive coachman. Makes the horses run by binding a bundle of hay to the shaft. J1671
- Dog follows washerwoman with bundle hoping for meat. J2066.6.1
- 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
- The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." K434.1
- Tortoise cheats leopard by substituting bundle of resin for bundle of meat. K476.1.2
- Hare escapes lion by being bundled in brushwood. K521.10