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Motifs — first 20 of 39
- World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth. A1000
- World destroyed by rain of stones. A1099.1
- Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up. A1122.1
- Swallows lift Christ's crown of thorns from his brow: why their nests are not destroyed. (Cf. A2431.3.5.) A2221.2.4
- Animal's revenge for being criticized by a bird: nest destroyed. B275.4
- Magic object destroyed. D866
- Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
- Water of life destroyed to prevent immortality: too long life would become tiresome. D1346.1.1
- Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
- Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a person. D2061.2.2
- Animals abused or destroyed to cause death of person. D2061.2.2.7
- House destroyed by magic. D2089.6
- Ghost laid when house it haunts is destroyed or changed. E451.8
- Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
- Fairies' underground palace cannot be burned by fire nor destroyed by water. F222.1.1
- Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
- Home of dwarfs is endangered or destroyed. F451.4.4
- Giant destroyed by army. F531.6.12.6.1
- Witch can be destroyed only by burning her to death. G275.3.0.1
- Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. G303.16.19