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Motifs — first 20 of 96
- Goddess with eight mouths. A123.2.2.2
- God with eight heads. A123.4.1.3
- Sleipnir: eight-legged horse of Odin. A136.1.2.1
- Goddess represented as mounted on a drake, attended by eight chief snakes attended by snake jewels. A137.9
- Eight heavens. A651.1.5
- The eight paradises. A661.2
- Eight (symbolical) steps of the ladder of heaven. A666.1
- Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
- Great flood lasts eight months. A1010.2
- Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
- Man made of substances from eight different sources. A1260.1.2
- Adam's body made of eight (four) things. Body, earth; bones, stones; veins, roots; blood, water; hair, grass; thoughts, wind; spirit, clouds, or warmth, fire; cold, air; dryness, earth; instability, water. A1260.1.3
- Origin of weights and measures. A1471.2
- Eight-headed animal. B15.1.2.7
- Eight-eyed bat. B15.4.1.4
- Fox with eight-forked tail. B15.7.4
- Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket. B542.1.2
- Measuring worm rescues from a height. B542.1.3
- Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. C231.5
- Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years. C611.1.1
Episodes
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 115 115.— THE BEIGHT SUN BEINGS IT TO LIGHT.
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Eighth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Eighteenth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Twenty-eighth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Thirty-Eighth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Forty-Eighth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Fifty-Eighth Dictum
- The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) · The Sixty-Eighth Dictum