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Motifs — first 20 of 49
- Creation of white horse. Man takes skin of horse and substitutes a white bedspread. A1881.1
- Substitutes for tabu expressions. C490.1
- Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
- Ghost substitutes for bride on her wedding journey. E363.1.1
- Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
- King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth. J1189.3
- Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
- How did the cow get on the pole? A fool hides his purse on a pole on a cliff. A rascal substitutes cow-dung for the money. The fool is interested only in how the cow could have reached the purse. J2382
- The eye-juggler. A trickster sees a man throwing his eyes into the air and replacing them. He also receives this power but he must not use the power beyond a specified number of times. When he does so, he loses his eyes. He usually gets animal eyes as substitutes. J2423
- Relative substitutes in contest. K3.1
- Young knight substitutes for old man in tournament. K3.2
- Woman substitutes for husband in combat. K3.3
- Hero to eat iron grains. Substitutes soft food. K63.1
- Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
- Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
- Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom. K525.1.2
- In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block. K525.1.3
- Escape by substituting self for another condemned to die. Holy man substitutes self for deacon held by heathen. K528.2
- Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) K842
- Raja substitutes himself for condemned man. Made to believe that this will take him to heaven. K842.4