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Motifs — first 20 of 329
- Creative mother source of everything. A3
- Saint goes to heaven every Thursday (each day) and talks with angels. A182.3.0.3.1
- Thunder god or spirit has very long mouth. A284.3.1
- Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855. A633
- Universe from pre-existing rocks. Originally rocks are assumed and everything is made from them. A644
- Sun as fire rekindled every morning. A712
- Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
- Primeval water: In the beginning everything is covered with water. A810
- Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
- Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
- Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc. A1346.2
- First people have everything they wish (life without work). A1346.2.2
- Origin of bravery. A1381
- Discovery of oil. A1426.1
- Discovery of oil (edible). A1429.1
- Why carpenters are found everywhere: flood scatters them on raft over world. A1445.2.1
- Origin of slavery. A1473
- Why a lamp must be lighted in a house at least every fortnight. A1599.14
- Tribal characteristics – bravery or cowardice. A1676
- Fly steals fire from spider: may eat everywhere. Spider brings fire from hell. Fly steals it from him on the way. (Cf. A2545.1.) A2229.4
Episodes
Tale types
- ATU 1387* Woman Must Do Everything like her Neighbors
- ATU 1391 Every Hole to Tell the Truth
- ATU 1407A 'Everything!' A miserly man marries a woman who pretends to eat nothing
- ATU 1420D Accidental Discovery of Identity
- ATU 1562A 'The Barn is Burning!' A master has instructed his farmhand (a traveler) to use peculiar names for everything, for example, Purity for the cat, Beauty for the fire, High for the roof (and punishes the farmhand when he does not)
- ATU 1924 The Man Known by Everyone
- ATU 232C* Which Bird Is Father A very small bird goes to God with his adult son, and asks God to guess which of them is the father and which the son
- ATU 322* Magnetic Mountain Draws Everything to It