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- Gods live in cloudland. A151.1.4
- Gods live in spring. A151.3.1
- Deity lives in forest. A151.7
- Early period when gods and men lived together, gods ruling men, ordaining how they should live and originating various customs. A189.9
- Thunder spirit lives in world below earth. A284.3.2
- Rain-god and wind-god brought back in order to make liveable weather. Have been banished by sun-god. A287.0.1
- Culture hero still lives. A570
- Culture hero still alive in hollow hill. A571.1
- Culture hero still alive on mysterious island. A571.2
- Creator lives in lowest sky beneath us. A651.2.0.1
- Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru. A759.4
- Chariot from heaven takes couple to live with sages in the Great Bear. A761.2
- Rainbow lives in a hole. A791.8.1
- Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. A941.5.4
- Former age: spirits and ogres lived with men, and gods appeared in human guise. A1101.1.3
- Primeval human pair live in innocence. A1270.1
- Origin of the liver. A1319.5
- Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1–30 vigorous (man's own); 30–48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48–60 no teeth (dog's); 60–70 foolish (monkey's). A1321
- Men live by the breath of the gods. (Cf. A1241.3.) A1394
- Origin of race colors from eating of ox. Those who eat livers are black; those who eat lungs and blood are red. A1614.4.1.1
Episodes
Tale types
- ATU 1007 Other Means of Killing or Maiming Livestock [K1440]
- ATU 1367* Better to Hang than to Marry an Evil Woman (previously To Live with Evil Woman)
- ATU 1545A* 'It's a Man!' A man disguises himself as a pregnant woman and is admitted to a house where a beautiful daughter (wife) lives
- ATU 1617 Unjust Banker Deceived into Delivering Deposits
- ATU 1682 The Horse Learns Not to Eat (previously The Groom Teaches his Horse to Live without Food)
- ATU 61B Cat, Rooster and Fox (previously Cat, Cock, and Fox live together)
- ATU 751B* The Old Man with the Live Coals
- ATU 788 The Man who Was Burned Up and Lived Again