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- Friendship between cow and lioness. A2493.30.2
- Lioness bears man child. B631.4
- Magic object recovered with lioness's help. D882.1.2
- Magic healing milk of lioness. (Cf. D1018.) D1500.1.33.1.2
- "Only one, but a lion". Lioness thus answers fox (hog) who twits her that she has only one cub. J281.1
- Fox refuses to mediate between lion and lioness. Lion decides to abandon lioness because of her bad odor. Ass, hog, and fox as judges. Ass says she has bad odor: lioness slaps him. Hog says she has not: lion slaps him. Fox says that he has a bad cold and cannot smell. J811.2
- Hare in lion's skin gets meat from lioness. K362.5
- Lioness enticed into putting head into wall to pursue hare who escapes through hole. Gets stuck. K771.1
- Child borne off by tiger, which is caught by griffin, which is killed by lioness, which rears child with her whelps. N215
- Man hidden in tree so frightened of lioness he drops his sword and kills her. N331.2.1
- Penance: lioness foregoes meat. Her two cubs are killed. The jackal tells her that he has had the same experience. She gives up eating meat and lives on grass. Q535.2
- Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Q551.3.1
- Lion cub killed by bull gives lioness no right to complain. U36