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Motifs — first 20 of 72
- Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. A941.5.4
- Origin of the liver. A1319.5
- 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
- Cuckoo delivers other birds from their cruel king: they agree to hatch out cuckoo's young. A2229.5
- Why deer's tail tastes like liver. A2378.9.4
- Cow with tallow liver. B15.7.9
- Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedy. B514.1
- Tortoise has no liver or teeth. B723
- Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
- Man's liver snatched away because of broken tabu. C948.4
- Disenchantment by covering with deliverer's clothing. D789.1
- Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
- The deliverer in the cradle. Enchanted person can be delivered by child rocked in a cradle made from an oak sapling after it has grown great. D791.1.3
- Magic bird-liver eaten unwittingly. D859.4.2
- Magic liver. D997.3
- Magic liver of animal. D1015.4
- Magic bird liver. D1015.4.1
- Human liver as medicine. D1248
- Divination from gall and liver of pig. (Cf. D1015.2.) D1311.10.2
- Snake liver prevents disease. (Cf. D1015.4.) D1500.2.8