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- Determination of night and day. After much discussion, the relative length of these divisions is determined. A1172
- Marriage between close relatives. A1552
- Origin of royal marriages with close relatives. A1552.2
- Animal grateful for release of relative. B365.3
- Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. B610.1
- Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. B691
- Tabu: offending supernatural relative. C30
- Tabu: offending other animal relatives. C37
- Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
- Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
- Tabu: uttering relative's name. C435
- Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
- Magic object received from relative. D815
- Magic object stolen by relatives. D861.8
- Resuscitation by relative. E125
- Dead relative's malevolent return. E220
- Dead relative's malevolent return – miscellaneous. E229
- Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
- Dead relative's friendly return. E320
- Debate of body and soul. Soul having left body enters into debate with the body concerning relative merits of body and soul. (Cf. H500.) E727.1