69 motifs match “basket”  ·  back to the chapters

• God (goddess) with basket. A137.4
• God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
• Escape from deluge in box or basket. A1029.5
• Creation in covered vessel. Men (or animals) created in a basket or from a bundle, or from under a blanket. A1295
• Light kept in box (basket). Stolen. A1411.1
• Origin of baskets. A1446.5.5
• Why some men are good basket-makers. A1650.3.1
• Origin of particular kinds of basket. A2828
• Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket. B542.1.2
• Tabu: not to lay down basket carrying bride on wedding journey. C169.1
• Tabu: looking into basket. C327
• Animals escape when forbidden baskets opened. Origin of animals. C915.2
• Transformation: basket of things to iron. D479.5
• Manna. Food from skies in basket each morning. D1031.0.1
• Magic air-riding basket. D1118.1
• Magic basket. D1171.11
• Magic food-basket (vessel) supplies food. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1472.1.19
• Magic basket supplies food. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1472.1.23
• Magic basket (box) furnishes slaves. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1476.3
• Magic basket (box) furnishes livestock. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1477.4
• Inexhaustible food basket. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1652.5.8
• Resuscitation by magic baskets. E64.20
• Resuscitation by water (in basket, overnight). E80.3
• Soul hidden in fish basket. E712.6
• Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket. F51.2
• Water-man cuts osier to make wicker basket. F420.3.2.7
• Thor carries giant in basket across icy stream. F531.3.1.3
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Ogre carries victim in bag (basket). G441
• Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms. H1578.2
• One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.) J1662.1
• Deer thought to be man with basket on head. J1762.4
• Air-castle: basket of glassware to be sold. In his excitement he breaks the glassware. J2061.1.1
• Air-castle: basket of eggs to be sold. In her excitement she breaks all the eggs. J2061.1.2
• Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light. J2123
• Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. K149.1
• Entry by master thief into closely guarded city in wood-gatherer's basket. K312.2
• Thief sends owner for water in leaky basket. K337.1
• Trickster dupes woman into putting him into basket. He thus learns where food is kept. K359.3
• Thieving insect put in closely woven basket asks to be put in a loosely woven one so he cannot see. K581.6
• Trickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapes. K676
• Victim tricked into entering basket. K714.4
• Capture by hiding in baskets of food. K758
• Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed. K814
• Concealed weapons in food basket sent king: kills servant who opens it. K929.11
• Hair tied to basket so that dupe kills self when she throws basket down. K1021.1.1
• Basket tied to wolf's tail and filled with stones. Wolf is persuaded that it is filled with fish. K1021.2
• Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. K1211
• Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) K1342.0.1
• Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) K1343.1
• Wife has hiding husband carried off in basket by thieves. K1514.7
• Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. K1517.11
• Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) K1625
• Spying parent jolted in basket. A lover is let down into a girl's room at night in a basket. The spying parent stumbles into the basket and is jolted about by the lover's confederate. The parent thinks the devil has got him and leaves the lovers in peace. K1663
• Swindlers allowed to hide money: proves to be basket of stones. K1675
• Trickster hides in basket and is carried. K1892.1.2
• Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind. K2033
• Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket. K2315
• Horse with basket of powdered peppers sent into hostile camp: enemy overcome. K2351.6.1
• Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. K2357.15
• Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others. L111.2.1
• Whether man begs all day or for an hour he gets only a small basket of grain. N264
• Prince (king) finds girl floating on water in basket: marries her. N711.5
• Dropped ball (basket) leads to adventures when recovery is attempted. N777
• "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in. Q474
• Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask). S141
• Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. T216
• Disregard of nature of basketry. X1756
• Lie: people carry wine in baskets. X1756.1