34 motifs match “bitten”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with one hand. Hand cut or bitten off. A128.4
• Head of god bitten off by shark. A179.4
• Sun-god bitten by snake, leaves earth for heaven. A222
• Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off. A2216
• Helpful hedgehog forces snake to suck out poison from bitten raja. B511.1.3
• Cheek bitten as warning of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.5.1.16.1.) D1812.0.1.1
• Saint orders a serpent which had bitten a man to withdraw its venom. D2156.5.1
• Devil has no heels. Bitten off by wolf who was created by devil. G303.4.5.7
• Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
• Man bitten by snake fears snake-like rope. J11.1
• Leopard ashamed of having been bitten by lizard. J411.10
• Snake complains to Zeus that people step on him. Zeus: "If you had bitten the first foot that stepped on you it would not be done now." J623.1
• Bitten by the sheep. Man caught just as he knocks sheep in the head: The sheep bit me (or: I'm not going to let sheep butt me to death). J1391.3.1
• The mad wheelbarrow. Fools chain a wheelbarrow, bitten by a mad dog, lest it bite others. J1887
• Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward. J2108
• Victim persuaded to hold out tongue: bitten off. K825.1.1
• Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten. K1023.5
• Dupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killed. K1125
• Woman bitten by own fierce watchdog. K1651
• Leopard frightened away by report of lizard's presence. Lizard has bitten leopard before. K1715.5
• The bitten cheek. In payment of a debt, a woman permits a man to kiss her; he bites her cheek so that she has a permanent mark. K2021.1
• Nut falls and wakes man about to be bitten by snake. N652
• Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) Q415.3.1
• Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Q451.4.8.1
• Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.5.3
• Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) Q453
• Punishment: being bitten by ants. Q453.1
• Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. Q453.2
• Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten. T11.4.4
• Husband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death. T211.1.2
• Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bitten. T254.2
• Stronger and Strongest. The frost-bitten foot. Mouse perforates wall, wall resists wind, wind dissolves cloud, cloud covers sun, sun thaws frost, frost breaks foot. Z42
• Man sharpening his dao is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the neck; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refuge in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house on an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well. Z49.6.3
• Biting a grain in half. Final formula: Forester attacks bear, the bear the wolf, the wolf the dog, the dog the cat, the cat the mouse, the mouse the grain – the grain is bitten in two. Z49.8