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- Creation of stork. (Cf. A1715.) A1966
- Origin of stork's long neck. A2351.4.1
- Color of stork. A2411.2.5.3
- Why stork has black back. A2411.2.5.3.1
- Why stork must hunt for living. A2452.2
- Friendship between monkey and stork. A2493.14.3
- Why stork is holy. (Cf. A2221.5.) A2541.2
- War between serpents and storks. B263.7
- The courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.) B282.23
- Helpful stork. B463.4
- Stork as nurse for child. B535.0.7.1
- Stork is man while hibernating in Egypt. B775
- Tabu: killing stork. C92.1.4
- Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.) C841.1
- Transformation: man to stork. D155.1
- Storks become men in Egypt in the winter. (Cf. D155.1.) D624.1
- Water-spirit as stork. F420.1.3.5
- Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. (Stork took bunch of grapes to nest; boy makes wine from them.) H806
- Stork killed along with cranes. Ill-advised associations end fatally. J451.2
- Frogs demand a live king. King Log. Zeus has given them a log as king, but they find him too quiet. He then gives them a stork who eats them. J643.1