38 motifs match “allowing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Great darkness due to awk swallowing the sun. A721.2.1
• Flood caused by loosing fairy horse and allowing it to stale. A1012.2.1
• Tabu: allowing a drop to fall upon altar. C51.1.8
• Tabu: king allowing rapine during his reign. C563.3
• Tabu: allowing person to come to feast after sunset. C752.1.4
• Tabu: allowing spear-head to touch stone. C835.2.2
• Tabu: allowing horse to lose his bridle, stray or stale. C884.2
• Magic powers from swallowing. D1735
• Magic powers from swallowing a straw. D1735.1
• Language acquired by swallowing its written characters. D1735.2
• Magic powers from swallowing magic drink. (Cf. D1040.) D1735.3
• Voice made rough by swallowing hot iron. F556.1
• Voice made smooth by swallowing hot iron. F556.1.1
• Extraordinary swallowings. F910
• All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside. F911.6
• Extraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous. F929
• Heat test: swallowing red-hot stones. H1511.1
• Test: swallowing heated brass and iron ornaments. H1511.1.1
• Test of leadership (obedience): swallowing mouse without vomiting. H1567.1.1
• "Be cautious before allowing yourself to fall asleep in a strange place": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.41
• Officer disarmed by sentry. Army major approaches sentry, takes away his rifle, and reproaches him for allowing himself to be disarmed. Sentry draws pistol from inside shirt, demands return of unloaded rifle. J1526.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: pretended swallowing. One bullock keeps mouth in water. Other drinks self to death. K82.4
• Fire stolen by swallowing it and then escaping. K382
• Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered. K713
• Deception into allowing oneself to be tied. K713.1
• Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
• Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner. K715
• Snake killed by putting knives in animal he is swallowing. K897.1
• Wife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.8
• Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.9
• Wife hides lover under bed. When husband comes in she drops candle and sends him out for another, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1521.4.1
• Renegade priest punished by death for allowing heathen to defile the host. A knight slays the priest. Q222.1.1
• Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.) Q552.2.3
• Conception from swallowing worm (in drink of water). T511.5.2
• Conception from swallowing a stone. T511.8.1
• Conception from swallowing a pearl. T511.8.6
• Asceticism: allowing self no repose. V462.4
• Lies about swallowing. (Cf. F910.) X1723