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Motifs
- God reduces the elements to order. A175
- Devil gives horse four eyes; God reduces them to two. A2286.2.2
- Serpent reduces man to a heap of ashes by its fiery gaze. B765.14.1
- Hero reduces in size small enough to get into mango seed. D55.2.6
- Boiling pitch reduced to cold water. D478.14
- Magic pills reduce snake to ashes. D1402.25.1
- Person magically reduced to ashes. (Cf. D1896.) D2061.1.1
- Person magically reduced to pile of bones. D2061.1.1.1
- Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.) D2061.2.5
- Magic glance reduces tree to ashes. Another restores it. D2082.1
- Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters. F667.2
- Counterquestions. Riddles answered by a question that reduces the riddle to an absurdity. H571
- Reduced prices but false weights. K286
- Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt. Q521.7
- Punishment: reduced number of children. Q553.3.7
- Judge reduces penalty when accused is his own son. [Inadvertant duplication of J1197.] U21.5
- Miser tries to reduce sacrifice promised to god. W153.14
- The teller reduces the size of his lie. X904
- The liar reduces the size of his lie when his brother steps on his toes to remind him of his lying habits. X904.1
- Liar reduces the size of his yarn when challenged. X904.2