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Motifs
- Origin of periodic sowing. A1441.4.1
- Periodic habits of animals. A2480
- Why animals shed periodically. A2483
- Animal's periodic habits – miscellaneous. A2489
- Animal changes sex periodically. B754.1
- Hare changes sex periodically. B754.1.2
- Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form. D113.1.1
- Periodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals. D620
- Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals. E155
- Pilate appears periodically at Mt. Pilatus and washes his hands. E411.8
- Wild hunt appears periodically. E501.11.3
- Dead person visits earth periodically. (Cf. E332.3.3.1, E535.3.) E585
- Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world. F791
- Witches renew powers periodically. G224.14
- Eating cure becomes epidemic. A woman feigns periodic attacks of a sickness that can be cured only by eating a great number of delicacies. The husband feigns the same disease. J1511.3
- Periodic sacrifices to a monster. S262
- Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700