“substituted”

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Animal substituted for human sacrifice. A1545.2
Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small". C433
Substituted eyes. Lost eyes are replaced by those of another person or animal. (Cf. F512.1.4.) E781.1
Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs and successfully uses them. E782.0.1
Substituted hand. Man exchanges his hand for that of another. E782.1.1
Substituted ribs (chariot ribs). E782.2
Substituted arm. Injured arm replaced by another. (Cf. A128.4.1.) E782.3.1
Substituted leg. Injured leg replaced by another. E782.4.1
Substituted tongue. E782.5
Substituted skin. E785.1
Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. F1002
Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) J2321.1
Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight. K18.3
Shooting contest won by deception: bird substituted for arrows. K31.3
Combat won by means of substituted weapons. K97.2
Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps. K331.3
The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1

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