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Motifs
- Magic power from Death. Death as godfather. (Cf. D1725.1.) D1724
- Old man as godfather to underground folk. F372.2.1
- Dwarf as godfather. F451.5.1.1
- Mountain-man as godfather. F460.4.7
- Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
- Death cheated by moving bed. The man who has chosen Death as his godfather has his bed turned around when he sees Death standing at the foot of his bed. He thus escapes death. K557
- Supernatural godfather. A king chooses as the godfather of his son the first man he meets. The godfather proves to be supernatural. N811
- Godfather. P296.1
- Cohabitation of godfather and godmother punished. (Cf. P296.) Q242.1
- Child promised to devil for acting as godfather. (Cf. N411.) S224