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Motifs — first 20 of 26
- Primeval woman cut in pieces: houses, etc., made from her body. A642.1
- The gods build houses, and fashion tools. A1402
- Acquisition of guest-houses. A1435.1
- Why crow must build nests far from people's houses. A2431.3.6.3
- Why sparrow may build nest near people's houses; reward for hospitality. A2431.3.7.1
- Why small ants live in houses while driver ants must live in bush. A2433.2.1.1
- Why cockroaches live in houses. A2433.5.7
- Bats keep fireflies to light their houses. B788
- Tabu: not to clean houses with cow-dung. C536
- Houses magically made larger. D488
- Fairy personage (god?) houses mistress in crystal bower. (Cf. F165.3.5.1.) D2185.1
- Houses in lower world of dead. (Cf. F163, F220.) E481.1.2
- Wild hunt goes through houses when front and back doors are on a line. (Cf. E501.17.5.4.) E501.14.6
- Houses at border of otherworld. (Cf. F163.3.) F147
- Tenantless houses at border of otherworld. F147.1
- Jinns frequent graveyards, ruined houses, or an altar of sacrifice. F499.3.3
- Witch causes haunted houses. G269.5
- The devil tries to learn a trade; he fails miserably at all but versemaking. He now loiters in alehouses, sings songs. G303.13.4
- Obedience of king's subjects tested by willingness to allow spear to be carried crosswise into houses. Way must be hewn. H1557.5
- Thieves tell judge walls of houses were so weak they could not resist temptation of breaking in. J1165.1