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Motifs
- Why sunlight is so much stronger than moonlight. A733.1
- Hector warns Trojans against attacking the stronger Greeks. Warning disregarded. Disastrous defeat. J652.4.1
- King improves kingdom before leaving it to his sons. He leaves it smaller but much stronger and richer. J701.2
- Mouse stronger than wall, wind, mountain. L392
- Mosquitoes sting King Pharaoh and show they are stronger than the man who cannot escape them. L392.1
- Child stronger than mother on day of birth. T585.1.1
- Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger. T685.4
- Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer." Z12
- Stronger and Strongest. The frost-bitten foot. Mouse perforates wall, wall resists wind, wind dissolves cloud, cloud covers sun, sun thaws frost, frost breaks foot. Z42
- The Esdras chain: stronger and strongest, wine, king, woman, truth. Z42.1