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Motifs — first 20 of 163
- God with thick (iron) shoe. A128.5.1
- Virgins with iron rods as guardians of two of the doors in heaven. A661.0.1.5
- Birds made of iron in hell. A671.2.11
- Sun has weapons of iron to repel enemies. A739.9
- Twelve iron pillars steady the earth. A841.3
- Iron created to punish cedar's pride. A978.2
- The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like. A1101
- Acquisition of livable environment. A1410
- Origin of iron. A1432.1
- Iron at first was made for food, not for weapons. A1432.1.1
- Tortoise cursed for going under water while ferrying rice-goddess: people will be able to kill it with iron-made spears. A2231.7.3
- Cricket hears water hiss on hot iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.3.4.) A2272.1.2
- Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.) A2272.1.3
- Christ puts knots in wood. Peter, angry at carpenters wants Christ to have iron knots in wood. Christ does make hard knots but not iron. (Cf. A2755.4.) A2738
- Animal with snout of iron. B15.5.2
- Animal with hair of iron pins. B15.7.10.2
- Bird with beak of iron. B15.7.13.1
- Destructive locusts (with wings of iron) eat wheat crop. B16.6.3
- Tabu: touching with iron. C531
- Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron. C531.1
Episodes
Tale types
- ATU 1162 The Iron Man and the Ogre
- ATU 1163 The Devil is Tricked into Revealing a Secret (previously The Ogre Teaches the Smith how to Use Sand in Forging Iron)
- ATU 1592 The Iron-eating Mice
- ATU 361* The Wolf with an Iron Head (previously Wolf Threatens to Eat Hero)
- ATU 44 The Oath on the Iron
- ATU 440 The Frog King or Iron Henry
- ATU 677 Iron Is More Precious than Gold
- ATU 910K Walk to the Ironworks (previously The Precepts and the Uriah Letter)