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Motifs
- Culture hero completes work of creator. A530.1
- Creation of hog incomplete since God has to go to a fire: cause of hog's round snout. (Cf. A2335.4.2.) A2286.1.1
- Why hog has round snout. Creation of hog incomplete since God had to go to fire. (Cf. A2286.1.1.) A2335.4.2
- Tabu: going home before adventure is completed. C756.3
- The living corpse. Revenant is not a specter but has the attributes of a living person. He wanders about till his "second death", complete disintegration in the grave. (Cf. E261.1.3, E268, E461.) E422
- Reincarnation to complete unfinished work. E606.2
- Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely. F914.1
- Slap turns man's face completely around. F1041.24
- Devil's unfinished work cannot be completed by human hands. One stone missing in church, etc. G303.14
- Amount of blood in spittle as test of complete subjection. Incomplete till all is blood. H252.2
- Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old). H611.3
- Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
- Marrying a stranger. The girl shortly to be married complains: "It was all very well for you, mother, to marry father, but I am to marry a complete stranger." J2463.2
- Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
- Vow not to see friends until quest is completed. M151.9
- Dam builder remarks that God Almighty could not sweep completed dam away. The whole structure gives away, disappears. Q221.4.1
- Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) Q545
- Child born with complete armor. T552.5
- Monks shrive selves clean under threat of complete exposure of their sins by brother possessed of fiend. V29.2