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Motifs — first 20 of 24
- God with elephant's face. A131.2
- Earth rests on elephant's back. A844.7
- Formerly animals have ears like elephant's: hare bites them off. A2216.7
- Why mouse is crushed whenever she crosses a road: elephant's curse. A2239.9
- Why elephant's penis is large. A2365.2.1.2
- Cause of elephant's walk. A2441.1.7
- The elephant's enemies. A2494.11
- Man-elephant. Man with elephant's head. B28
- Ascent to heaven by holding on to elephant's tail. F75
- Person with feet like elephant's. F517.1.7
- Man with eyes the size of brass pots, teeth like axeheads, ears like elephant's ears. F531.2.12
- King selected by elephant's bowing to him. H171.1
- Task: stealing elephant's tail (tusks). H1151.6
- Task: stealing enormous diamond from elephant's forehead. H1151.6.1
- Task: liberating wife's sister, elephant's captive, who lives in a box in his ear. H1151.18
- Flies try to drink water from elephant's ears. He kills them. J971
- To return the dead elephant alive. Hired elephant dies. Owner demands the live elephant. The god causes the elephant's owner to break pots of the other. Is unable to make specific restitution. J1191.4
- Blind men and elephant. Four blind men feel an elephant's leg, tail, ear and body, respectively, and conclude it is like a log, a rope, a fan, and something without beginning or end. J1761.10
- Frog leaps into water after elephant's reflection. J1791.5.3
- Jackal entrapped in elephant's carcass tells passing God to show his magic power by making it rain. Elephant's hide swells; jackal escapes. K565.2