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Motifs — first 20 of 23
- Why men may eat hares. A1422.1
- Why hares have cotton tail. Deity rubs cotton on hare. A2378.9.3
- King of hares. B241.2.6
- Hares carry taxes to court. B291.3.2.1
- Child shares food with toad. B391.2
- Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs – three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color – but dies. F987.1
- Troll has hares in stable. G304.3.2.4
- Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
- Foxes desert their allies, the hares, when they foresee defeat by the eagle. J682.1
- More timid than the hare. Hares take heart when they see that frogs are more timid than they. J881.1
- Hungry son gets cherries. He slaps another son, and explains that the other boy was saying that he would not get any of the father's cherries. The father shares the cherries. J1341.9
- Monkey "shares" ointment with tiger: produces sores. K1043.1
- Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) K1544
- Dog alternately bites and caresses hares. Is he friend or enemy? K2031
- False ascetic in partnership with tiger shares his prey. K2058.2
- Despairing lover at lady's tomb takes poison. She revives to learn of his fatal error and shares his fate. (Romeo and Juliet.) T37.1
- Hares fearing death outrun pursuing dogs. U242
- Saint shares punishment of sinful man whose cloak he shared in life. V414
- Youngest brother shares wealth with older brothers who foolishly lost theirs. (Cf. L31.) W11.14
- Man lays bag by fencehole and all the hares run into it. X1114
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