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- Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages. A1333
- Confusion of tongues partly due to lack of understanding of difference between the word for "stick" and the word for "stone." A1333.1
- Animal languages learned by exchanging tongues with helpful dragon. B217.6
- Magic knowledge of strange tongues. D1815
- Gift of tongues received from ghosts. D1815.0.1
- Ghosts as dogs with glowing tongues and eyes. (Cf. E423.1.1, E522.) E421.3.6
- Dogs with fiery tongues in wild hunt. E501.4.1.2
- Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer. H105.1
- False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. H105.1.1
- Riddle: seven tongues in a head. (A horse's head in which a bird's nest is found with seven birds in it.) H793
- Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer. H1382.1
- Man dupes animals into turning their tongues upside down. K1064
- Palace in other world of the dead where are rooms full of tongues, hands, etc. of men committing sins in this world. Q561.4
- Heads (tongues) of slain enemies as trophies. S139.2.2.1.1