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Motifs — first 20 of 47
- God prepares food for mortal. A185.7
- Creator prepared earth's nucleus as one would a rice cake. A836
- Gods teach how to seek and prepare food. A1420.2
- A small animal (hare, bitch) gives timely warnings to the hero about the trap prepared by his enemy. Animal warning about trap killed. B335.6
- Charm prepares feast. (Cf. D1273.) D1472.2.4
- Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
- Recognition by unique cookery. Only one person could have prepared the food in this way. H35.2
- Widow prepared for suttee can lift by little finger heavy stone by temple. H479.1
- Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
- Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.) H1024.1.1.1
- "Prepare for night camp while it is still day": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.20
- Account of punishments prepared in hell brings about repentance. J172
- Buffalo refuses tiger's invitation to dinner. He sees fire prepared to cook him. J425.2
- King (queen) teaches children to work at all tasks to prepare them for life's possible hazards. J702.2
- Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
- Muddy bath prepared for blemished king. J815.3
- Poor suitor served good supper prepared for rich one. Recites a satirical rhymed grace. J1561.3.1
- Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.) J1563.5.1
- Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
- Fool believing in omens refuses to prepare for death. Bird has chirped five times, which he thinks guarantees him five more years to live. J2285.1