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Motifs
- Seven substances employed in composition of human body. A1260.1.4
- Means employed in magic murder. D2061.2
- Devil is employed as a midwife. G303.9.3.2
- Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
- Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity. H400
- The trusted porters. A man finds a treasure, but is robbed by porters whom he has employed to rid him of the trouble of carrying it. J2092
- Trickster employed to educate baby crocodiles: he eats them instead. K931.1
- Sham-warrior boasts and is employed at palace. K1951.3.1
- The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him. K2322
- Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
- Symbolism: not to fight alone. Various figures employed to show it is not good for one warrior alone to fight the battles of a host. Z161