To have children, a woman eats a fish, apple or something else. A mare, a bitch or other domestic animals eat part of this food (often skin, broth, etc.). The woman gives birth to a boy (twins) a mare to colts, a bitch to puppies

A man acquires a magic wife. Another woman agrees to marry him if he abandons or kills his first wife. The man does it and loses everything

After eating a fish, the sterile woman gives birth to a son or twins

Using a bell (drum, etc.) an animal (usually a mouse) produces sounds which the antagonist who is blind or is outdoors takes for the sounds produced by the hero (heroine). Thanks to this the hero escapes

Person takes for alive coal a red bead (stone) that fell into the hearth and does not understand that the fire is extinguished

While the men of the household are not at home, a demonic person comes to drink blood of a girl or young woman or make her harm other way. Initially the men do not understand why the girl becomes thin

The hero has to come unrecognized to the meeting place of his enemies. He meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a medicine-woman) who goes there, puts on her skin and acquires her appearance

Person’s (demonic) nature becomes clear when he or she laughs and shows his or her teeth

Old man and woman make a child of clay (wood, straw). The doll becomes alive, devours everybody who comes across. Usually a goat (sheep) breaks it, swallowed people come our alive

A stomach (spleen) cut out of the body of a domestic animal or fowl becomes a voracious monster