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Motifs — first 20 of 26
- Creator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize it. A857.2
- Peacock shows rivers the way to the big valley so they will not go round and round. A934.12
- River valley licked out by giant beast. A951.1
- Hills from flapping of primeval bird. Hills and valleys are formed from the flapping of a giant turkey-buzzard when the earth is still plastic. A961.1
- Mountains and valleys formed from great fire. A969.3
- Origin of valleys or hollows. A983
- Menstruating women must wear amulet of leaves when approaching certain valley. C146.1
- Enchanted valley. D7
- Valley disenchanted rises to level of surroundings. D799.2
- Magic knowledge of language of valleys. D1815.6
- Valley fills with gold at command. D2102.2
- Perilous valley in (on way to) land of dead. E750.2.2
- Perilous valley. F151.1.1
- Otherworld as valley. F160.2
- Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
- Extraordinary valleys and plains. F756
- Valley of fire. (Cf. F702, F753, F763, F771.1.11, F785.3.) F756.1
- Extraordinary valley which gives the illusion of earthly paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) F756.2.1
- Fertile valleys created by deity's stamping down mountains. F756.2.2
- Valley full of dreadful monsters. F756.5.1