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Motifs
- Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life. A620.1
- Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved. A853
- First men undeveloped. Rudimentary and amorphous, gradually assume present shape. A1225
- Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
- Person gradually submerged by sea. F945
- Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
- Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light. J2123
- Crow asks hospitality of sparrow and gradually takes possession of nest and kills young. (Often told of camel and tent.) K354.1
- Trickster paid to educate an ass. He gets paid in advance. He gradually starves the ass. K491
- Escape by singing song. Captive gradually moves away and at last escapes. K606
- Idle sons-in-law driven away by gradually reducing their food. P265.1
- Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. T569.1