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Motifs
- Roads marked out by supernatural cows. A989.2
- Raths marked out with brooch. A1435.2.1
- Why dove's head is marked as it is. A2330.7
- Why raven has nose marked as if it had been broken off. A2335.2.3
- Fly indicates successful suitor. Girl to marry man on whom specially marked fly lights. B152.2
- Path to underworld marked by knots tied in grass by spirits. F95.4
- Sign of the cross marked on bewitched object breaks witch spell. (Cf. G273.1.) G271.2.1
- Cross marked on horn and forehead of cow causes bewitched cow to give normal amount of milk. G271.2.1.1
- Fool exchanges his wife with ox; thinks something to be wrong with her head (she has been marked with red at the parting of her hair). J2081.3
- Three reasons for not giving alms. (1) Student has only one eye: Aristotle says to beware of those whom nature has marked. (2) Student comes from Bremen: no one of consequence comes from there. (3) His name is Nicholas: no one with that name can succeed. J2225
- Marked culprit marks everyone else and escapes detection. K415
- The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
- The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
- Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1