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- Food of gods: meat of "cow of plenty". A153.5
- Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. A1421
- How frog lost tail. (Cf. A2242, lent to squirrel.) A2378.2.6
- Why certain animals are plentiful. A2582
- Why pigs are plentiful. A2582.1
- Why yams are small but plentiful in certain place. A2794.2
- Animal with horn of plenty. B115
- Animal with tail of plenty. B115.3
- St. Valentine's Day for bird assembly. B232.1
- Tabu: fraudulent sacrifice. C57.1.1
- Tabu: tasting milk of "cow of plenty", dedicated to the gods. C241.1
- Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small". C433
- Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form. D113.1.1
- Saint's staff as an excellent pilot at sea. D1313.5.1
- Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. D1427.2
- Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
- Charm makes cows give plenty of milk. (Cf. D1273.) D1449.1
- Horn of plenty (cornucopia.) (Cf. D1011.1, B115, D1475.1.) D1470.2.3
- Magic kettle (cauldron) turns stones to excellent food. D1472.1.11.1
- Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching. D2156.7
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