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- Hearth-god. A411.4
- Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts. A761.4
- Origin of the domestic hearth. A1455.1
- Devil throws tar at tree: hence tar in tree-heart. (Cf. A2755.3.) A2734.2
- Origin of tar in heart of trees. (Cf. A2734.2.) A2755.3
- Why the heartsease (polygonum persicaria) has red stripes. A2772.3
- Heart of dragon. B11.2.9
- Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out. B17.1.2.2
- Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). B17.1.2.2.1
- Treasure-producing bird-heart. (Cf. D1015.1.1.) Brings riches when eaten. B113.1
- Wisdom from eating fox's heart. B163.1.1
- Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart. B217.1.2
- Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. C219.4
- Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
- Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
- Transformation: money of the hard-hearted to scorpions. (Cf. D444.2, D444.4, D469.11, D471.1). D444.1
- Transformation: animal heart to other object. D457.15
- Transformation: fox's heart to rattle. D457.15.1
- Pursued sweetheart becomes tree. (Cf. D215.) D642.3.1
- Disenchantment by eating enchanter's heart. D763.1
Episodes
Tale types
- ATU 1186 The Devil and the Lawyer (previously With his Whole Heart)
- ATU 1455 The Hard-hearted Fianc'e
- ATU 207B Hard-hearted Horse and Donkey
- ATU 302 The Ogre's (Devil's) Heart in the Egg
- ATU 305 The Dragon's Heart-blood as Remedy [D1500
- ATU 52 The Donkey without a Heart
- ATU 567 The Magic Bird-heart
- ATU 567A The Magic Bird-Heart and the Separated Brothers
- ATU 772* The Flies Instead of Nails on Christ's Heart
- ATU 785 Lamb's Heart (previously Who Ate the Lamb's Heart)