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Motifs — first 20 of 24
- Why man is fearful in the jungle. A1382.1
- Deity's wife creates mosquitoes to drive her husband out of jungle. A2034.1
- Why squirrel stays hidden in jungle. A2433.3.9.1
- Why tiger lives in jungle. A2433.3.21
- Rat servants cut jungle down, till soil for master. B292.9.3
- Elephants look after ascetic in jungle. B530.2
- Centaur rescues man from beast-infested jungle. B547.3
- Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
- Man carries a beam eighteen feet in length and cuts path through jungle at same time. F631.6.2
- Jungle-man as cannibal. G11.14
- Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
- Boy says that travelers should catch the mares (walking sticks that are in the jungle). H586.8
- "High-born alone recognizes one of equal rank with himself." Jackal sees man with instrument he is unfamiliar with, comes up to him and salutes him "Lord of Delhi." Man calls him Lord of Jungle and tells above. J814.3
- Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
- Mare is allowed to dance before being killed; it dashes off to jungle with persecuted boy hidden in belly. K551.3.6.2
- To drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every day. K1446
- Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. K2129.3
- Separation in jungle (forest). N316
- Husband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.) S143.4
- Exposure in jungle for refusing to marry according to father's wishes. S322.1.2.1