Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
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real and apparent values
reasons for abandonment of children
reasons for promise (sale) of child
reasons for voluntary transformation
recapture of fugitive
recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes
recognition by resemblance
recognition of witches
recognition through common knowledge
recognition through personal peculiarities
recovery of magic object
reductio ad absurdum of question or proposal
refuges
refuges and recapture
refuges and recapture
regular cannibalism
reincarnation
reincarnation
reincarnation as animal
reincarnation in object
reincarnation: miscellaneous
reincarnation: other forms
relations by law
religion
religious animals
religious beliefs
religious beliefs
religious beliefs – miscellaneous
religious buildings
religious edifices and objects
religious edifices and objects
religious fasts and feasts
religious founders
religious rewards
religious sacrifices
religious services
religious services
religious services – miscellaneous
remarkable man’s extraordinary possessions
remarkable persons
remarkable persons
remarkable physical organs
remarkable skill
remarkably strong man
remedies worse than the disease
repartee based on church or clergy
repartee concerning beggars
repartee concerning doctors and patients
repartee concerning drunkenness
repartee concerning false reform
repartee concerning fatness
repartee concerning the parentage of children
repartee concerning wine
repartee with ruler (judge, etc.)
repartee – miscellaneous
repeated reincarnation
repeated transformation
rescue from ogre
rescue of abandoned or lost persons
rescue of captive
rescue – miscellaneous motifs
rescuers
rescues
rescues
resuscitation
resuscitation
resuscitation by arrangement of members
resuscitation by magic
resuscitation by medicines
resuscitation by rough treatment
retorts between husband and wife
retorts concerning debts
retorts concerning thefts
retorts from hungry persons
return from dead to inflict punishment
return from dead to repay obligations
revenants in conflict
reversal of fortune
revolting murders or mutilations
revolting murders or mutilations
reward of helpful animal
rewards and punishments
rewards and punishments
rewards for other causes
rewards – miscellaneous
rich men
riddles
riddles based on the bible or legend
riddles based on unusual circumstances
riddles of comparison
riddles of distance
riddles of explanation
riddles of numbers
riddles of the superlative
riddles of value
riddles of weight and measure
rights of the strong
royal ministers
royalty and nobility
royalty and nobility
royalty and nobility – miscellaneous
rude retorts