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- Tabu: showing surprise when supernatural husband resumes his true shape. C32.1.2
- Woman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy. He fails to return it and she becomes a man when she resumes human form. D11.2
- Swan Maiden. A swan transforms herself at will into a maiden. She resumes her swan form by putting on her swan coat. (It is difficult to tell in most Swan Maiden tales whether the primary form is swan or maiden: the incident may belong at D161.) D361.1
- Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings and resumes her form. D361.1.1
- Bird, reincarnated murdered girl, resumes her original form when persecutor's blood is poured on her. E696.1
- Presumptuous wolf among lions. Large wolf, called by his companions "Lion". Presumes to mix with lions but is only a wolf. J952.1
- Lazy woman resumes her work. She sees how a little bird by persistence pecks a hole in a stone. J1011