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Motifs — first 20 of 24
- Division of control of universe among gods. A161.1
- Determination of night and day. After much discussion, the relative length of these divisions is determined. A1172
- Beginning of division of labor. A1472
- Division of labor: religious and lay activities. A1472.1
- Origin of customs: game-division. A1525
- Origin of laws: division of property in a family. A1585
- Origin of tribal subdivisions. A1640
- Characteristics of tribal subdivisions. A1641
- The devil and his son fight over division of the earth. G303.11.2.1
- Wise division of the goat (similar). H601.1
- Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes. J581.5
- Division of the fat and lean fowls. Two fat fowls and one lean one at meal. Hero is lean, his two hosts fat. He is to divide. One lean fowl for the two fat people; two fat fowls for the one lean man. J1241.4
- Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day. J1565.3
- Deceptive division of profits. K171
- Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. K171.0.1
- Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. Of root crops the ogre (stupid animal) chooses the tops; of other crops the roots. (Cf. J242.8.) K171.1
- Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
- Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive. K171.3
- Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe. K171.4
- Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig. K171.5