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Motifs — first 20 of 47
- Magic fighting cock. B171.2
- Magic fighting goat. B184.5.1
- Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
- Tabus concerning fighting. C835
- Tabu: fighting certain person. C835.4
- Tabu: fighting with a hag. C835.4.1
- Magic objects acquired by acting as umpire for fighting heirs. When hero gets hold of objects he refuses to return it. D832
- Fighting animals eaten produce magic strength. (Cf. D1032.) D1335.1.3
- Spirit host fighting in air as evil omen. D1812.5.1.17.1
- Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting. D2031.14
- Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
- Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death. E497
- Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. F171.4
- Tabu: fighting battle in fairyland. F210.1
- Fighting with berserks. F610.3.4
- Fighting with twelve berserks. (Cf. F610.3.3.) F610.3.4.1
- Fighting stars melt iron chariots. F961.2.6
- Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. F1041.16.6.7
- Continuous fighting. No rest or food. F1084.0.3
- Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy. G152
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