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Motifs — first 20 of 31
- New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
- Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. B251.1.2.3
- Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
- Unstable bridge to land of dead. E481.2.1.2
- Life token: hero's horse stands in stable in blood up to his knees. E761.1.9
- Dwarf home is underground, beneath cow stable. (Cf. F451.4.4.3.) F451.4.1.5
- Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.) F451.4.4.3
- Strong man uses stable-roof as flail. F614.7
- Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. G303.8.12
- Troll has bear in stable. G304.3.2.3
- Troll has hares in stable. G304.3.2.4
- Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it. H1102
- Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
- Man sleeping in stable (abandoned cabin) thinks entering animals are ghosts: kills them. J1782.4
- Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?" J2172.2.1
- Man says: "That's the best horse in all England, but I have one in my stable worth ten of him. (Cf. J1743.1.) J2217.1
- Damages for supposedly lost horse. Horse concealed by owner in loft of stable at inn. K251.4
- Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. K335.1.9
- Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness. K443.5
- "Have we leave to go?" Two prisoners are made stable boys on their promise not to escape secretly. Before horse race starts they ask: "Do we have your leave to go?" They go home. K475.2