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Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Determination of world center. By reaching to its ends. A1181
- Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out. B17.1.2.2
- Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body. B784.1.4
- Magic object obtained by reaching in certain cardinal direction. D859.3
- Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching. D2156.7
- Otherworld people rejuvenated on reaching old age. F167.9.1
- Fairy gives instructions on means of reaching heaven. F251.9
- Giant with upper lip reaching heaven; lower earth. F531.1.4.1
- Giant with lower lip reaching earth. F531.1.4.1.1
- Extremely deep water. Axe seven years reaching bottom. F713.2.1
- Burning pillar reaching heaven. F774.2
- Witch with twisted tusks (reaching to her shoulders). G214.4
- Rakshasa. Dog or ape-shaped; red hair and eyes; mouth reaching from ear to ear; ears pointed like spears; shape-changers; cannibals; three heads, five feet, four eyes, no fingers, bear-neck, horns. Attack women. G369.1
- Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) H1053.2
- Little men preferred to big men. Preacher prefers small men because the intellect has difficulty in reaching to one's heels. J493
- Numskull tries to preach while the priest is preaching: beaten. J2131.1.1
- The fee used up before the main question is reached. A man with an unsolved question seeks the help of a wit. The latter refuses to answer unless paid. He takes small fees for each easy question leading up to the principal question. Before reaching that point the fee is exhausted, and the question remains unanswered. K265
- Vow not to enter any house before reaching one's own. M182
- Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Q415.8
- Repression of lust through preaching. T317.3