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- Origin of Polish noblemen: from wheat dough that a bitch devours. A1656.1
- Dragon devours children. B11.10.3
- Cat devours flesh of man's legs. B16.1.1.3
- Demon of gluttony devours man's food in his throat. F402.1.7
- Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. G11.2.1
- Woman devours her husband. G11.6.4
- Animal-wife devours her husband. G79.1
- Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. G94.1
- Lamia devours her lover. G262.0.1.1
- Witch disguised becomes queen, devours king's horses nightly. G264.3.1
- Spirit-woman in rock devours men and cattle. G312.2
- Ogress devours horses. G312.7
- Cannibal nature of woman recognized when she devours dead buffalo raw. H46.1
- Riddle: what is the mother who devours her children when they grow up? (Ocean and rivers.) H734
- Man resuscitates a lion which devours him. J563
- Numskull sends meat home through kite (bird); kite devours it. J2124.1
- Dog as wolf's shoemaker eats up the materials. Devours the cow, hog, etc. furnished him. K254.1
- Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) K827.1
- Familiar devours whoever does not keep pact with devil. M219.4
- Beautiful girl seated on large lotus flower holding big elephant in each hand which she devours and throws off alternately. X943.1