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- God with many heads. A123.4.1
- God with three heads. A123.4.1.1
- God with seven heads. A123.4.1.2
- God with eight heads. A123.4.1.3
- God of whirlwind. Typhon. He is represented as having serpents' heads on his shoulders, as having a voice like the sound of many beasts and eyes which flash fire. A282.1
- Culture hero has three heads of hair of different colors. A526.4
- Tree in hell made of living heads of the dead. A671.2.3
- Women at first with breasts on their foreheads. A1313.4.1
- Origin of bald heads. A1315.2
- Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
- Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
- Origin of "goat-heads" from curse of Ham. A1614.1.2
- Heads of various people. A1663
- Why sheep walk with bowed heads: they have remained so after having bowed to God. A2221.9
- Why hawks put heads of mice, etc. on pile of stones. A2452.3
- Hero's dogs (horse) prevent dragon's heads from rejoining body. (Cf. B11.2.3.) B11.11.2
- Jaguar with two heads. B15.1.2.1.3
- Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body. B15.7.1
- Ghormuhas: men's bodies, horses' heads, one leg, cannibals. (Cf. B21.) B15.7.5
- Eagle with twelve wings and three heads. B15.7.16