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Motifs — first 20 of 48
- Creation of chicken. A1988
- Why wildcats come and eat chickens. A2435.3.15
- Enmity between civet cat and chicken. A2494.1.8
- Enmity between fox and chicken. A2494.9.2
- Enmity between birds of prey and chickens. A2494.13.10.6
- Magic chicken (hen, cock). B171
- Speaking chicken. B211.3.2.1
- Chicken as laborer. B292.9.2
- Helpful chicken. B469.5.1
- Chicken picks out one of attacker's eyes. B524.8
- Transformation: man to chicken (cock, hen). D166.1
- Stolen chickens turned to stones in cooking. D471.8.1
- Magic chicken-thigh. D1013.1
- Arrows rubbed with black chicken fatal. D1402.7.5.1
- Magic chicken wing keeps one warm in cold weather. (Cf. D1022.) D1481.1
- Automatic hen and chickens of gold. D1620.2.2
- Revenant with chicken feet. E422.1.6
- Revenant as hen. Sometimes with chickens. E423.3.6
- Spirits with goose (chicken) feet. F401.3.5
- Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold. F481.0.1.4
Tale types
- ATU 1284* Forcing the Hen to brood her chickens
- ATU 1373B* Daughter Offers Father her Own Flesh (previously Girl Eats Chicken) [K492]
- ATU 1408C The String of Chickens (Including the previous Type 1876
- ATU 1419A The Husband in the Chicken House
- ATU 1741 The Priest's Guest and the Eaten Chickens
- ATU 821B Chickens from Boiled Eggs
- ATU 960C The Miracle of the Cooked Chicken