26 motifs match “bald”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of bald heads. A1315.2
• Baboon pressed on hot, flat rock: hence bald place on his back. (Cf. A2317.10.) A2213.2.3
• Why fly is bald. A2317.2
• Why buzzard is bald. A2317.3
• Why crow's head is bald. A2317.4
• Why raven is bald. A2317.5
• Why magpie is bald. A2317.6
• Why vulture is bald. A2317.7
• Why bat is bald. A2317.8
• Why john-crow has bald head. A2317.11
• Baldness from breaking tabu. C949.2
• Magic helmet prevents baldness. (Cf. D1101.4.) D1389.8
• Baldness magically cured. D2161.3.4
• Feathered skin magically grafted to bald head. D2161.3.4.1
• Swallowed person becomes bald. F921
• Devil as a ribald traveler. G303.3.1.3.1
• What are the most accursed things? A thriftless wife, a baldheaded daughter, a sour-faced daughter-in-law, a crooked axle, and a field which lies across the village road. H659.18.1
• Quest for bald, white-headed cow. H1331.3.1
• Magpie tells a man that his wife has eaten an eel, which she said was eaten by the otter. The woman plucks his feathers out. When the magpie sees a bald man, she says, "You too must have tattled about the eel." J551.5
• Baldheaded man finds the comb: it is useless. J1061.2
• Bald man tries to sell hair restorer. Scorned. J1062.2.1
• The cynic and the bald-headed man. His only reply to the baldheaded man's slanders is to compliment the hair that has left such a horrible head. J1442.9
• Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head. J2102.3
• Gray hair cured by pulling it out so that the person is bald. J2112
• Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) K863
• Wife exposes bald head of second wife to disgrace her. Hair marvelously regrows. T257.2.1