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

• God with red beard. A125.2
• God with long white beard and white moustache. A137.18
• Origin of hair and beard. A1315
• Origin of beard. A1315.3
• Origin of custom of wearing a beard. A1597
• First men without beards: Cain, Abel. A1597.1
• Hair and beard of various peoples. A1661
• How the white man got his beard. A1661.1
• How goat got his beard. A2322.4
• Tabu: bearded man laughing when shaken. C461
• Tabus of bearded men. C565
• Tabu: labor by bearded man. C565.1
• Tabu: bearded man being lazy. C565.2
• Tabu: bearded man sleeping at sunrise. C735.1.1
• Tabu: bearded man refusing combat. C835.1.1
• Tabu: bearded men abusing women and children. C867.1.0.1
• Tabu: bearded man refusing request. C871.0.1
• Tabu: bearded man going dirty to bed. C891.2
• Transformation: grass to beard. D451.5.4
• Magic beard. D991.1
• Magic hair of ant's beard. D1023.4
• Magic hairs summon giant. He gives hero some hairs from his own beard. (Cf. D991.) D1421.4.1
• Magic strength resides in beard. D1831.2
• Dead body incorruptible. Beard and fingernails continue to grow. E182
• Bearded woman ghost laid by shaving her. E451.7
• Path to heaven on beard. F57.3
• Gray-bearded fairy. F233.10
• Offspring of fairy and mortal has long hair and beard at birth. F305.3
• Water-spirits with green hair and beard. F420.1.4.7
• The beards of dwarfs. F451.2.3
• Long-bearded dwarf. (Cf. F451.6.1.) F451.2.3.1
• Dwarfs have long beards in three strands. F451.2.3.1.1
• Dwarfs have gray beards. F451.2.3.2
• Dwarf caught by beard in cleft of tree. (Cf. F451.2.3.1.) F451.6.1
• Giant with long beard. F531.1.6.4
• Sexes of pygmies distinguished. A slight beard on men; long tresses on women. F535.4.1
• Remarkable beard. F545.1
• Beardless man. F545.1.0.1
• Blue beard. F545.1.1
• Green beard. F545.1.1.1
• Beard projected over beams of great hall. F545.1.2
• Beard grows through table. F545.1.3
• Beard shelters fifty men from rain. F545.1.4
• Bearded woman. (Cf. T321.1.) F545.1.5
• Enormously fat woman with beard. F545.1.5.1
• Beard travels detached from owners. F545.1.6
• Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) F634.1
• Fetter for Fenris wolf. Made of sound caused by the footfall of cats, beards of women, roots of mountains, sinews of bears, breath of fish, and spittle of birds. F864.1
• Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution. F1044
• Witch (troll-woman) with beard. G219.2
• Devil's beard. G303.4.1.3
• Devil has a red beard. G303.4.1.3.1
• The devil dies when he is fastened in hell's door by his beard. G303.17.3.2
• Monster's beard as proof of visit. H105.4.1
• How many hairs are there in the head? As many as are in the tail of my ass; if you don't believe it we will keep pulling out one hair from your beard and one from his tail. H703.1
• Riddle: how much is my beard (king's) worth? H712
• How much is king's beard worth? The months July, August, and September. H712.1
• How much is king's beard worth? A May rain (three rains in summer). H712.2
• Riddle: who of fourfold beard is he, of azure foot and neck so ruddy? Arrow. H751
• Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.) H771
• Quest for three hairs from devil's beard. H1273.2
• Test of valor: rousing servant's anger. Nobleman, when examining servants for hire, bids each stand before him and comb his long beard. Occasionally he snaps at them as if to bite them. Those who dodge he lets go; those who offer fight he employs. H1561.4
• King to avoid possible assassination singes his beard rather than have barber shave him. J634.1
• "Thief has grease from stolen fowl on him": thief begins to feel his beard and is detected. J1141.1.2
• Bishop orders priest to wear his beard and his robe "not too long and not too short." J1161.8.1
• A long beard and sanctity. Told that a forest dwarf with a long beard is a saint, a man replies: "If a long beard indicates sanctity, the goat is a saint." J1463
• The ass is not at home. A man wants to borrow an ass. The owner says that the ass is not at home. The ass brays and the borrower protests. "Will you believe an ass and not a graybeard like me?" J1552.1.1
• Philosopher spits in king's beard. It is the only place he can find at the royal table not covered with gold and jewels. J1566.1
• Deduction: one-eyed, long-bearded thief is named Kale Khan. J1661.1.8
• Numskull's beard cut off: does not know himself. J2012.1
• Short-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it up. J2072.2
• Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances." J2136.3
• Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
• The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." K434.1
• Disguise by shaving off beard so as to escape. K521.2.1
• Disguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined warrior's face and torn his beard off. K521.2.3
• Goat trembles so hard from fear of tiger that shaking of his beard frightens tiger away. K547.7
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. K1085
• Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. K1111.1
• Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black. K1821.1
• Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). K1821.4
• Beardless villain. K2275
• Vow to kill anyone who touches his beard. M166.3
• Helper's beard and eyebrows cut. Only after hero has performed this service is help forthcoming. N810.2
• Only the brave to wear beards. P642
• Pulling a man's beard as an insult. P672
• Fur made of beards of conquered kings. P672.1
• Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.) Q497
• Bluebeard. Girl marries murderous husband. S62.1
• Mutilation: beard torn off with the skin (and cheeks). (Cf. S187.1.) S166.1
• Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off, but held together by biting the beard. S166.2
• Baby ordered killed because it pulls beard of father (raja). S327.2
• Maid pledged to celibacy is given, at her prayer, a beard. T321.1
• Child born with long beard. T551.13.2
• Beard on she-goats do not make a male. U112
• Jesus had "dark hair and a long red beard". V211.2.1.2.1
• Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. X511
• Absurd stories about beards. X1727
• Lie: barber shaves wife's beard. X1727.1