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Motifs — first 20 of 386
- Deity has snake-children. A132.1.1
- A woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and water. A700.3
- Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children. A700.8
- Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two. A736.1.4.1
- Moon kills sun's children. A736.1.4.1.1
- Children of the sun. A736.5
- Children from union with the sun turn into bit of blood in daytime as soon as they are exposed to sun; take human form (shape) again at sunset. A736.5.2
- Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. A737.4
- Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
- Two children in moon with yoke and bucket. A751.7
- Stars as children of the moon. Cook Zeus I 523 n. 6. A764.1
- Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day. A764.1.1
- Sun eats all his own children except morning star, while moon keeps all her children in hiding. A764.1.2
- Stars as children of sun and moon. A764.1.3
- Most brilliant stars children of the sun; others are children of the moon. A764.3
- Pleiades seven illegitimate children. A773.4
- Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
- Winds as children of titans (giants). A1123
- Thunder from thunder-spirit beating his children. A1142.5.1.2
- First parents children of god. A1271.3
Episodes
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 24 BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 62 BOOK FIVE: OISIN'S CHILDREN
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 85 85.— THE GOLD-CHILDREN.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 113 113.— THE TWO KINGS' CHILDREN.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 157 157.— THE SPARROW AND HIS FOUR CHILDREN.
- Myths of the Cherokee · Miscellaneous Myths and Legends — Myth 118 118. BABY SONG, TO PLEASE THE CHILDREN
- Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic · Tale 1 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR;
- Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic · Tale 2 THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF TURENN;
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 31 XXXI. THE TRICKSTER KILLS THE CHILDREN ”
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 67 LXVII. THE DESERTED CHILDREN *5
Tale types
- ATU 1012A Seating the Children (previously Cleaning the Children)
- ATU 1119 The Ogre Kills His Mother (Wife) (previously The Ogre Kills his Own Children)
- ATU 1149 Bluff: Children Desire Tiger's Flesh (previously Children Desire Ogre's Flesh)
- ATU 1343* The Children Play at Hog-killing
- ATU 1805* The Clergyman's Children
- ATU 1856 Children by Day and by Night
- ATU 2271 Mock Stories for Children
- ATU 247 Each Mother Likes her Own Children Best (previously Each Likes his Own Children Best)
- ATU 285A* The Adder Poisons the Children's Food because their mother has thrown away her eggs
- ATU 327 The Children and the Ogre