30 motifs match “beating”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess in moon beating tapa beneath tree. A751.8.6
• Thunder caused by God beating his weapon. A1142.5.1
• Thunder from thunder-spirit beating his children. A1142.5.1.2
• Creation of animals as punishment for beating forbidden drum. A1731
• Daily beating of men transformed to dogs. Necessary unless hero himself is to be transformed. D691
• Disenchantment by beating. D712.5
• Self-beating drum. (Cf. 1211.) D1601.18.3
• Resuscitation by beating. E11
• Ghost summoned by beating drum. E384.1
• Ghost laid by beating body to pieces. E446.3.1
• Breaking spell by beating the person or object bewitched. This injures the witch. G271.4.5
• Beating the devil. One must give him an odd number of strokes. Devil asks for one stroke more. G303.16.19.19
• Beating brings about outcry and recognition. H182
• Wisdom acquired from beating. Incognito prince, beaten for his courtesy, realizes his folly and returns home. J18
• Naïve remark of child: "You forgot to strike mother." A father in habit of beating his wife remarks that he has forgot something. The child says, "I know. You forgot to strike mother." J122
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• Thief punishes the escaped ox. An ox strays on the rascal's land but escapes from him. The next week he sees the ox yoked up and gives him a beating. The master is astonished. The rascal: "Let me alone; he knows well enough what he has done." J1861
• "Thank God it's over!" Man who has been promised a beating lives in constant dread. Is eventually beaten. He thanks God. J2568
• Strokes shared. The boy promises the soldier what the king has promised to give him. The soldier receives a beating in place of the boy. K187
• Ogre frightened away by beating tom-tom. K547.6
• Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee. K548.2
• Pretended sick man aroused by beating. K1676
• Disguise as saint. Man beats wife for spending too much time at church. Wife has maids dress as her patron saints and when the husband repeats the beating she calls on them for help. The husband is beaten. K1827.1
• Hand stuck for beating an idol. Q222.5.6
• Punishment: beating to death. Q422.0.1
• Daily beatings as punishment. Q458.1
• Torturing by beating. S186
• Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning. T251.8
• Why he beats her. Lazy wife beaten by husband maintains that she has done nothing. That is why he is beating her. W111.3.4
• Wife too lazy to spin. Supposed dead husband comes back to life and gives his wife a beating, because there was no shirt even in the event of death. W111.3.5