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Motifs — first 20 of 27
- Mythical horse belonging to water-spirit. B19.3.2
- Tabu: contact with things belonging to a king. C501
- Magic object causes longing. D1374
- Magic music causes longing. (Cf. D1275.1.) D1374.1
- Longing of human child of sky-mother to visit father on earth. D2006.2.1
- Concern of ghost about belongings of its lifetime. E419.10
- Living smith must repair wagon belonging to wild hunt. E501.15.5
- Subterranean palace at bottom of lake belonging to king of serpents. F127.1.1
- Fairy dies of longing for fairyland. F259.1.3
- Elf-knight produces love-longing by blowing on horn. F301.2.1
- Longing in fairyland to visit home. F374
- Death from longing. F1041.1.4
- Inordinate longing. (Cf. D1041.1.4.) F1041.15
- Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. G36.1
- Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings. H509.1
- Tasks assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H936
- Quest assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H1212.4
- The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire. J1175.1
- Safe since no white man is near. White man asks Indian if he can safely leave some of his belongings inside the Indian's lodge. The Indian assures him that he can: "There is no white man within a hundred miles of here." (Cf. X600.) J1373
- Thief followed home. A thief ransacks a man's house and departs. The man gathers together the rest of his belongings and tracks the thief. Comes to the thief's door. Thief: "What do you want with me?" "What, isn't this the house we set out for?" J1392.1