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- Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out. B17.1.2.2
- Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). B17.1.2.2.1
- Giant magic boar slain by tearing out entrails from behind. F981.8
- Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief. F1041.21.6
- Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it. H1041
- Task: cutting and bringing leaves from thorn thicket without tearing them at all. H1046.2
- Task: tearing down a huge wall. H1116.3
- Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skin. H1505
- Tearing up the orchard (vineyard). Rascal has been told to cut wood. K1416
- Tearing garments as sign of grief. P678.1
- Reward for tearing out eye when demanded. Q42.6
- Punishment: tearing off flesh with hot pincers. Q469.9.1
- Murder by tearing out heart. S139.6
- Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret. S163
- Mutilation: tearing off ears. S168
- Torture by tearing out the sides (of a person). (Cf. S166.1.) S187.1
- The cock strikes out the hen's eye with a nut. The cock blames the hazel bush for tearing its knickers, the hazel bush the goat for gnawing at it, the goat the shepherd-boy for not tending it, the boy his mistress for not baking him a bun, the mistress the pig for eating up the dough, the pig the wolf for killing its young. Z43.2
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