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Motifs — first 20 of 159
- Bee as God's spy. God, the creator, sends a bee to overhear the devil's secrets. A33.3.1
- God reveals secrets (mysteries) to mortals. A182.1
- What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) A2236.1
- Ass betrays deity's secret: hence his ugly bray. A2239.3
- Owl reveals deity's secret: power of speech removed. A2239.3.1
- Birds tell a secret. B122.1.1
- Bird reveals druidic secrets. B122.1.2
- Secrets discussed in animal meeting. B235
- Animals tell hero their secrets. Do so voluntarily. B561
- Tabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420). C31.9
- Tabu: revealing secrets of god. C51.4
- Tabu: spying on secret help of angels. C51.4.2
- Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies. C51.4.3
- Tabu: uttering secrets. C420
- Man (woman) persuaded to reveal fatal secret. C420.1
- Tabu: uttering secret overheard. C420.3
- Tabu: revealing secret of supernatural husband. C421
- Tabu: uttering secrets heard from spirits. C423.4
- Tabu: revealing secret song. C426
- Tabu: uttering secrets – miscellaneous. C429
Tale types
- ATU 1091A Guessing the Name of the Devil's Secret Plant
- ATU 1163 The Devil is Tricked into Revealing a Secret (previously The Ogre Teaches the Smith how to Use Sand in Forging Iron)
- ATU 1381D The Wife Multiplies the Secret
- ATU 1381D* Secret Senate
- ATU 181 The Man Tells the Leopard's Secret (previously The Man Tells the Tiger's Secret)
- ATU 403C The Substituted Bride (previously The Witch Secretly Substitutes her own Daughter)
- ATU 886 The Girl Who Could Not Keep the Secret