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Motifs — first 20 of 153
- Sun from head of youth offered in sacrifice. A718.1
- Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
- Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
- Why the Kamar offer liquor to gods and spirits. A1689.5
- Merman demands cattle as offering. B82.2
- Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints. B184.2.3.3
- Faithful dog is offered as security for a debt. B579.6
- Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
- Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit. C43.3
- Tabu: eating from offerings made to gods. C57.1.3
- Tabu: eating before offering woman food. C231.3
- Offer to make pups born of woman in shape of hound human. D601
- Money from offertory as cure. (Cf. D1288.) D1500.1.10.3
- Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
- Horse and weapons needed by hero are provided after incense is offered to Nandia, the Bull. D2107.1
- Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings. E541.3
- Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. F302.3.2
- Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. F302.3.2.1
- Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) F302.3.2.2
- Fairies appear in house and offer to dance with child. F321.5
Tale types
- ATU 1373B* Daughter Offers Father her Own Flesh (previously Girl Eats Chicken) [K492]
- ATU 1781 Sexton's Own Wife Brings her Offering
- ATU 1951 'Is the Wood Split' A lazy man is offered a load of wood as a gift
- ATU 860 Nuts of 'Ay ay ay!' A princess is offered to any man who can bring a glass containing all kinds of water, a bouquet of all the flowers, and nuts of ay, ay, ay! A suitor brings seawater, a beehive, and hazelnuts with thorns so that the king cries, 'Ay, ay, ay!' [H1377