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- Culture hero has three heads of hair of different colors. A526.4
- Rainbow has three colors. A791.4
- Origin of colors at sunrise and sunset. A797
- Colors of winds. A1129.1
- Origin of race colors from eating of ox. Those who eat livers are black; those who eat lungs and blood are red. A1614.4.1.1
- Birds cling to sky in flood: cause of tail colors. (Cf. A2412.2.) A2211.7
- Birds painted their present colors. A2217.1
- God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.) A2286.2.4
- Origin of color of hyena. (365 colors). A2411.1.7.1
- The four characteristics of wine. Devil helps Noah plant vineyard and kills various animals over it. These illustrate the four qualities of wine. peacock: brilliant colors; ape: jokes; lion: boldness; hog: drunkenness. A2851
- Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black. B731.4
- Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. B731.14
- Dye blessed by saint colors animals, trees. (Cf. D1297, V220.) D1684
- Colors of the otherworld. F178
- Cup of three hundred colors. F866.1
- Riddle: king in red; courtiers in different colors. (Spring and flowers.) H731.3
- Colors corresponding to the four world quarters. Z140.2
- Symbolism of colors in mass vestments. Z140.3