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- Buffaloes grateful for care of their calves. B395
- Line drawn by saint's bachall separates calves from their mothers. (Cf. D1272.1, D1277.) D1574
- Fairies admit calves to cows, depriving children of milk. F366.1.2
- Fairies ride farmer's calves. F366.1.3
- Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." J1341.6
- Man beats calves because the bull has butted him over the fence. J1863.1
- Men must have been calves once (for they are fond of milk). Fish so reason. (Cf. B233.1.) J2214.6
- Priests substitute gilded images of calves for those of solid gold. K476.4.1
- Adulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?" K1271.4
- Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence. K1784.2
- Calves not let to cows during fast. P623.0.7
- Four calves to one cow at a birth. T586.4.1
- Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. V65.1