21 motifs match “blowing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Shrew blows nose into snout. Sent after fire, he finds but a little which he tries to revive by hard blowing. A2211.5
• Blowing serpent. Can blow through seven church walls but not through a pair of hose. B743
• Transformation by blowing. D588
• Disenchantment by blowing on victim. D778
• Disenchantment from berry by blowing on it. D778.1
• Disenchantment by blowing medicine on victim. D778.2
• Prognostications for year from winds blowing on January 1. (Cf. D1812.5.0.7.3.) D1812.5.0.16
• Wind raised by blowing into tobacco pipe. D2142.1.6.1
• Resuscitation by blowing trumpet. E55.3
• Resuscitation of cremated man by blowing on the ashes. E66.1
• Elf-knight produces love-longing by blowing on horn. F301.2.1
• Mighty blower. Man turns mill with his blowing. (Cf. X935.) F622
• Witch keeps winds from blowing. (Cf. D2142.1.) G283.2
• Witch keeps wind from blowing by putting cat under barrel. (Cf. D2142.1.5.) G283.2.1
• Special power of chaste woman: blowing out candle with one puff and relighting it with another. H413.1
• The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled. J355.1
• Protected by the needle. In a storm on the ice, numskulls stick needles into the ice to keep from blowing away. J1965
• Blowing contest won by deception. K26
• Escape from animals by blowing ashes into their faces. K621.2
• Contest of wind and sun. Sun by warmth causes traveler to remove coat, while wind by violent blowing causes him to pull it closer around him. L351
• Blowing the house in. I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in. Z81