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Motifs — first 20 of 55
- Why common crab lives underground. A2433.6.3.3
- Marriage of person to animal. Extremely common. Only a few references are given. B600
- Tabu: teaching genealogy of chiefs to commoners. C564.6
- Mare from water world disappears when she is scolded and her halter used for common purposes. C918
- Transformation: common man to exalted personage. D22
- Transformation: common man to grand officer. D22.1
- Exchange of common cow for gold-dropping cow made by daughter when her father stops at her home for the night. D871.1.1
- Reincarnation: prince becomes common man. E605.5
- Reincarnation: common man becomes prince. E605.6
- Fairies (elves). See also F420 (Water Spirits), F451 (Dwarfs) and F460 (Mountain Spirits) for many common motifs. F200
- Common names for dwarfs. F451.8.1
- Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
- Devil marries girl whose rich mother refuses to let her marry common young men of community. G303.12.5.3
- Recognition through common knowledge. H10
- Recognition by observing emotional reactions of another to object of common experience. H14
- Recognition by seeing husband shed tears on sight of bird (main character in a former experience common to both husband and wife). H14.1
- Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
- Recognition by recalling common experiences. H15.2
- Recognition by describing or producing object of common knowledge. H16
- Recognition by wounds on lip and finger received at common adventure. H16.2
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