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Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Culture hero has supernatural helpers. A528
- Demon's helpers. G302.8
- Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
- Helpers on quest. H1233
- Fairies as helpers on quest. H1233.4.1
- Succession of helpers on quest. One helper sends to another, who sends to another, etc. (Cf. H1241.) H1235
- Helpers on quest demand pay for advice. H1235.1
- Quest accomplished by means of objects given by helpers. H1239.3
- Angel helpers in religious test. H1573.0.1
- Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
- Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
- Deceptive drinking contest: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.) K82.2
- Sham calling to helpers frightens robbers away. K548.3
- Same reward promised to many helpers. K2034
- Helpers. N800
- Supernatural helpers. N810
- Chief with three supernatural ogre helpers. N812.7
- Supernatural helpers – miscellaneous. N819
- Human helpers. N820
- Sons as helpers. N832.2