21 motifs match “bleeding”  ·  back to the chapters

• Bleeding wood as sign of Doomsday. A1002.2.2
• Blood from wizard becomes red grain of cedar. Bleeding head of wizard who tries to kill the sun placed on top of a tree. (Cf. A2755.1.) A2731.3
• Bleeding from breaking tabu. C949.4
• Speaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated persons. E631.0.4
• Bleeding rock. F809.4
• Men disappear at revolving bleeding rock. F809.4.1
• Bleeding tree. Blood drops when tree is cut. F811.20
• Bleeding lance. Stream of blood flows from it into silver cup. (Cf. D1086.) F991.1
• Bleeding knife. F991.1.1
• Bleeding bone. Man cuts into dry bone that bleeds. F991.2
• Bleeding cake. F991.3
• Bleeding loaf of bread. F991.3.1
• Bleeding rock. F991.5
• Witch may be recognized by absence of bleeding when she is pricked with pins. G259.3
• Breaking spell on animal by bleeding or maiming animal. Witch suffers same loss or injury. G271.4.4
• Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds. H1507
• Urination of bull thought to be bleeding. J1818.1
• Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes. K923
• Deception by sham blood. By stabbing bag of blood (or otherwise) trickster makes dupe think that he is bleeding. K1875
• Cure by fall which causes bleeding. N644
• Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Q427