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Motifs — first 20 of 168
- White god. A124.2
- God with long white beard and white moustache. A137.18
- Creation from duck's eggs. Upper vault from half shell, lower vault from half shell, moonbeams from whites, sunshine from yellows, starlight from motley parts, clouds from dark parts. A641.2
- Origin of white and colored races. A1614
- Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water. A1614.2
- Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter. A1614.4.3
- Indians and whites from different legs of first man. A1614.7
- Origin of white man. A1614.9
- How the white man got his beard. A1661.1
- Why the white man has short hair. A1661.2
- Creation of white horse. Man takes skin of horse and substitutes a white bedspread. A1881.1
- Buffalo helps tiger quench fire: white mark left on buffalo's neck where tiger held on while being ducked in water. A2211.12
- Fox struck with churn-dash: hence white tail. (Cf. A2378.8.1.) A2215.5
- Ravens show Adam how to bury dead: are born with white feathers. A2223.7
- Devil's animals devour God's. God makes white fish, devil a pike to eat it up; God a worm, devil a frog to eat it, etc. (Cf. A1751.) A2286.2.1
- Why young ravens have white feathers. A2313.5
- Why the cock's comb becomes white when he is angry. A2321.10.1
- Why deer has white mark on nose. From white ashes. A2335.2.1
- Why end of fox's tail is white. (Cf. A2215.5.) A2378.8.1
- Why weasel is white with dark tip to tail. A2411.1.2.1
Episodes
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 17 17.— THE WHITE SNAKE.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 53 53.— LITTLE SNOW-WHITE.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 135 135.— THE WHITE BEIDE AND THE BLACK ONE.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 161 161.— SNOW-WHITE AND EOSE-EED.
- Myths of the Cherokee · Historical Traditions — Myth 88 88. first contact with whites
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 82 LXXXII. THE WHITE CAT 233
Tale types
- ATU 1183 Washing Black Wool White (previously Washing Black Cloth White: Task for Devil)
- ATU 1284A White Man Made to Believe he is Black [K2013
- ATU 1312* Trying to Wash Black Animal White [J1909
- ATU 1315** A White Mare Thought to be a Church
- ATU 403 The Black and the White Bride
- ATU 480C* Transporting White Bread to Hell
- ATU 673 The White Serpent's Flesh
- ATU 709 Snow White