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Motifs — first 20 of 28
- Why we have rats: one escapes from slaughter of rats. A1854.1
- Tabu: slaughtering buffalo in temple. C93.5
- Drops of blood presage slaughter. D1812.5.1.1.5
- Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.) H583.9
- Young ass avoids food eaten by animals before being slaughtered. Runs to his mother and asks to have all remains of the hog's food taken out. J12
- Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
- Why the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieks. J1733
- Drinking the moon. The numskull sees a cow drink from a pool where the moon is reflected. The moon goes under a cloud. He thinks the cow has eaten the moon and slaughters her to recover it. J1791.1
- Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. J1866
- Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
- Absurd ignorance about slaughtering animals. J1906
- The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before. J2168
- Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
- The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
- Herdsman slaughters animals entrusted to him. K346.2
- Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all. K352
- Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
- Girl substituted for boy to avoid slaughter by father. K514.1
- Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) K871.2
- Slaughter of animals by stampede. K927