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Motifs — first 20 of 34
- Creative mother source of everything. A3
- River's source where sky and earth meet. A659.3
- Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes. A920.1.1
- Man made of substances from eight different sources. A1260.1.2
- Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
- Tabu: disclosing source of magic power. C423.1
- Tabu: crossing river except at source. C833.1
- Dwarfs' gifts cease when mortal betrays the source. (Cf. C420, F348.5.) F451.5.1.6.1
- Giant's presents cease when source is disclosed. (Cf. F348.5.) F531.5.6.3
- Extraordinary source of river. F715.1
- Source of witch's magic. G224
- Witch's salve. Source of magic power. G224.2
- Other sources of witch's power. G224.13
- Test of resourcefulness. H506
- Test of resourcefulness: weighing elephant. Man puts him on boat; marks water-line; fills boat with stones until it sinks to same line; weighs stones. H506.1
- Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
- Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
- Test of resourcefulness: putting thread through coils of snail shell. Thread tied to ant who pulls it through. H506.4
- Test of resourcefulness: to swing seventy girls until they are tired. H506.5
- Test of resourcefulness: not to sit at the foot of couch. Servant gives prince a lemon to place on it indicating which is head and which foot of couch. H506.6