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Motifs — first 20 of 34
- Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades. A316
- Great flood lasts eight months. A1010.2
- Determination of the months. A1160
- Certain foods tabu one (two) months before childbirth. C152.3.2
- Life prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each year. D1855.5
- Magic sleep brought on by combing hero's hair lasts six months. D1962.3.1
- Supernatural person (adulterer) causes sun to stand still for nine months. (Cf. T481.) D2146.1.1.2
- Baby giants four months old "two feet broad in the chest and twelve feet high." F531.2.14
- Person does not sleep for many months (years). F564.3
- Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) F564.3.1
- Person sleeps for nine months. F564.3.4
- Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
- How much is king's beard worth? The months July, August, and September. H712.1
- Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months. H721.3
- Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
- Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
- Test: repeating incantation continuously for months. H1508.1
- Test of memory: Solomon asks Marchus question, receives answer; fourteen months later he asks second question based on first, again receives correct answer; four months later asks third question based on first two, again receives correct answer. H1595.1
- Too much for his income. Child born two months after marriage. Husband returns wife to her father (uncle) saying: "I can't afford a child every two months." J1276.2
- Numskull bales out the stream. He comes to a stream but not wishing to get his feet wet he sits down to wait for the stream to run down. He helps to bale the stream out with a hazelnut shell and keeps it up for months. J1967