391 motifs match “another” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. A52.0.8
• Satan attempts to create another world. A63.8
• God born of another god's sweat. A114.1.1.1
• One sun-god for night; another for day (Osiris, Horus). A227.2
• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up. A724.1.1
• Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
• One mountain in love with another stretches leg out to meet her: origin of a mountain chain. A965.1
• Persons excluded from Noah's ark build another ark and sail to Ireland. A1021.0.1
• End of world when stars in one constellation overtake those in another. A1051.2
• Why one people is superior in power to another. A1689.11
• Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
• Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. A2240
• Animal characteristics: borrowing and not returning. Animal borrows a member (or quality) from another and refuses to return it. (Cf. A2242, A2313.3, A2345.1, A2351.3, A2375.2.1, A2421.4, A2435.4.1.) A2241
• Animal characteristics: stolen from another animal. (Cf. A2313.3, A2375.2.2.) A2245
• Animal characteristics learned from another animal. A2271
• Dog loses his patent right; seeks it: why dogs look at one another under the tail. (Cf. A2471.1.) A2275.5.5
• Why dogs look at one another under tail. (Cf. A2275.5.5, A2232.8; also *Dh IV 129ff.) A2471.1
• Why dogs sniff at one another. A2471.1.1
• Why hogs inspect one another: seek pancake. (Cf. A2275.5.1.) A2471.2
• One plant transformed into another. A2616
• Empousa. Monster with one foot of brass and another of an ass. B15.6.2
• Animals taught one another's language. B215.0.1
• Animals speak to one another at Christmas. B251.1.2
• Cows speak to one another on Christmas. (Cf. B215.) B251.1.2.2
• Wedding of eagle with another bird. B282.2
• Wedding of lark and another bird. B282.3
• Wedding of owl and another bird. B282.4.1
• Wedding of finch with another bird. (Cf. B285.1.) B282.5
• Wedding of goldfinch with another bird. B282.6
• Wedding of bullfinch with another bird. B282.7
• Wedding of titmouse with another bird. B282.8
• Wedding of wren with another bird. B282.9
• Wedding of sparrow and another bird. B282.10
• Wedding of blackbird with another bird. B282.11
• Wedding of thrush with another bird. B282.12
• Wedding of woodpecker with another bird. B282.13
• Wedding of magpie with another bird. B282.14
• Wedding of heathcock with another bird. B282.15
• Wedding of raven with another bird. B282.16
• Wedding of quail with another bird. B282.17
• Wedding of hoopoe with another bird. B282.18
• Wedding of cuckoo with another bird. B282.19
• Wedding of pigeon with another bird. B282.20
• The courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.) B282.23
• Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.) B512
• Tabu: touching food of another caste. C551.1
• Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. C785
• Transformation to likeness of another person. D40
• Transformation to likeness of another woman. D40.2
• Transformation to likeness of another person – miscellaneous. D49
• Transformation: one animal to another. D410
• Transformation: mammal (wild) to another animal. D411
• Transformation: squirrel to another animal. D411.1
• Transformation: rat to another animal. D411.2
• Transformation: hare (rabbit) to another animal. D411.3
• Transformation: antelope to another animal. D411.4
• Transformation: mouse to another animal. D411.6
• Transformation: seal to another animal. D411.7
• Transformation: mammal (domestic) to another animal. D412
• Transformation: cat to another animal. D412.1
• Transformation: cow (ox) to another animal. D412.2
• Transformation: swine becomes another animal. D412.3
• Transformation: horse to another animal. D412.4
• Transformation: dog to another animal. D412.5
• Transformation: bird to another animal. D413
• Transformation: insect to another animal. D415
• Transformation: mantis to another animal. D415.1
• Transformation: object to another object. D450
• Transformation: nut to another object. D451.7
• Transformation: leaf to another object. D451.8
• Transformation: shell to another object. D452.2
• Transformation: sand to another object. D452.3
• Transformation: earth (dirt) to another object. D452.4
• Transformation: box to another object. D454.1
• Transformation: bread to another object. (Cf. D471). D454.2
• Transformation: one article of clothing to another. D454.3.1
• Transformation: blood to another object. D457.1
• Transformation: eye to another object. D457.11
• Transformation to likeness of another by sleeping with arms about him under the same mantle. D592
• Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another. D610
• One shape by day; another by night. D621.0.1
• Transformation to another form to persuade man to go to battle. D659.9
• Transformation to cure inconstant husband. He falls in love with another woman: his wife changes him to negro. He then falls in love with negress: wife changes him to ass. He then falls in love with she-ass. Finally restored to his original form. D662
• Head transferred from one man to another; second man's head in first man's hand. D711.1.1
• Disenchantment by laying collected bones in a seven-fold cloth and spreading another above it. D717.1
• Disenchantment of another by weeping jug of tears. D753.2
• Magic water. (Note: here are included all references to magic water, whether as a remedy or as another type of magic agent). D1242.1
• Magic object tells how another fares. D1310.4
• Magic ring tells how another fares. (Cf. D1076.) D1310.4.1
• Clairvoyant spring. Lady whose lover is absent to look in spring each day. If she sees his shadow, he is about to marry another. (Cf. D927.) D1323.12.1
• Magic object fetches another object. D1428
• Magic object transfers disease to another person or thing. D1500.3
• Charm shifts diseases to another person. (Cf. D1273.) D1500.3.1
• Death of another revealed in dream. D1812.3.3.11
• Magic knowledge of another's thoughts. D1819.1
• Magic sight by treading on another's foot. D1821.1
• Magic sleep by hairdressing. Head laid on another's lap. D1962.3
• Magic glance reduces tree to ashes. Another restores it. D2082.1
• Milk transferred from another's cow by magic. (Cf. D1605.2, C2087.) D2083.3