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Motifs — first 20 of 355
- Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good. A107
- God represented with lightning flashes as sword. A137.14.4
- Sun, moon and wind dine with their uncle and aunt, thunder and lightning. A153.3.2
- Combat between god of light and dragon of ocean. A162.2
- Thunder and lightning slay devils. A162.3.2
- God flies in pillar of floating clouds, thunder, and lightning. A171.3
- God divests self of earthly raiment and clothes self with lightning. A179.7
- God of light. A260
- Goddess of light. A260.1
- God of lightning. A285
- Angel of lightning. A285.0.1
- Lightning weapon of the gods. A285.1
- Lightning flashes from armpits of hero. A526.9
- Creation from duck's eggs. Upper vault from half shell, lower vault from half shell, moonbeams from whites, sunshine from yellows, starlight from motley parts, clouds from dark parts. A641.2
- Moon from light, sun from fire. A712.1
- Sun and moon placed in top of tree. Hero makes the sun and moon and fastens them to the top of the "World Tree" (cf. A652), but they give no light at first. A714.2
- Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness. A722.2
- Heat and light of the sun. A733
- Why sunlight is so much stronger than moonlight. A733.1
- Beams of light are snares with which sun is tied to earth. Cf. A728. A733.4
Episodes
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 68 CHAPTER I. THE FLIGHT FROM TEAMHAIR
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 115 115.— THE BEIGHT SUN BEINGS IT TO LIGHT.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 116 116.— THE BLUE LIGHT.
- The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged · Tract 14: The New Chemical Light, Part I (Michael Sendivogius)
- The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged · Tract 15: The New Chemical Light, Part II, Concerning Sulphur (Michael Sendivogius)
Tale types
- ATU 1008 Lighting the Road
- ATU 1132 Flight of the Ogre with his Goods in the Bag
- ATU 1245 Sunlight Carried in a Bag (Basket, Sieve) into the Windowless House
- ATU 130B Fleeing Animals Threatened with Death (previously Animals in Flight after Threatened Death)
- ATU 1341D The Thief and the Moonlight
- ATU 1344 Lighting a Fire from the Sparks from a Box on the Ear
- ATU 1360B Flight of the Woman and her Lover from the Stable
- ATU 1785 The Clergyman Put to Flight During his Sermon
- ATU 1871C The Cynic Wants Sunlight
- ATU 313 The Magic Flight