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Motifs
- Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit. C43.3
- Tabu: eating from offerings made to gods. C57.1.3
- Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings. E541.3
- Trickster eats sacrifice offerings. K254.2
- Sexton's own wife brings her offering. The priest grants to the sexton the offerings brought by all women whom the priest has loved. The priest always calls out "Take" when these women offer. The sexton's own wife comes. The priest calls out "Take!" (Cf. Q384.) K1541
- Trickster shams death and eats grave offerings. K1867.2
- God dislikes offerings beyond one's ability. V10.2
- Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
- Offerings to holy wells. V134.2
- Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3