40 motifs match “bottle”  ·  back to the chapters

• Assignment of crafts and professions: creator opens shop and from it distributes plough, pen, bottle, pair of scales, fishing-net and loom to various groups. A1440.1
• Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle. B391.1
• Bottlefly finds stolen woman in sky. B543.1
• Tabu: drinking water from certain bottle. C273.2
• Tabu: opening bottle. C625
• Ten serving-women carried in bottle. They change size at will. D55.2.4
• Transformation: bottle to gold. D475.1.14
• Magic bottle. D1171.8
• Contents of bottle cause magic sleep. (Cf. D1040, D1171.8, D1242.) D1364.12
• Opening bottle summons genie. (Cf. D1171.8.) D1421.1.14
• Magic bottle supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.8.) D1472.1.17
• Magic healing bottle. (Cf. D1171.8.) D1500.1.16
• Magic water bottle brings water. (Cf. D1171.8.) D1601.35
• Saint throws ink bottle at devil who annoys him. D2176.3.3.3
• Demon enclosed in bottle. D2177.1
• Revenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.) E464
• Soul hidden in water bottle. E712.7
• Spirit as fly going into bottle. F401.3.4
• Spirit in bottle (bag) as helper. F403.2.2.4
• Boy Jesus carries water in his cloak when water bottle is broken. F866.7.2.1
• Bottle concealed in person's thigh. F1034.3.2
• Witch uses bottle of horse-nail stumps to bewitch people. (Cf. D1274.1.) G224.13.1
• Breaking spell by burying bottle of water, preventing witch from urinating until the bottle is emptied. G271.4.7
• Stopped bottle as protection against witches. G272.10
• Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward. H1023.2.2
• Test of strength: breaking heavy glass bottle over loaf of rye bread. H1562.3
• Little coin in empty bottle noisy. J262.2
• Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle. J1565.1
• Alleged inexhaustible bottle sold. K117.1
• Trickster returns a bottle of water instead of the bottle of rum he has just purchased. K231.6.2.1
• Man orders a bottle of beer, then returns it and takes a loaf of bread instead. He refuses to pay for the bread because he has returned the beer undrunk. He refuses to pay for the beer because he has not drunk it. K233.4
• Thief hides in large bottle to get into room: bottle put into water to boil. K439.11
• Complaint about the empty bottle. While the servant in the inn is bringing a glass, the trickster drinks the wine and then complains that he has been given an empty bottle. The servant must bring another. K455.6
• Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle. K717
• Bottle wherein jinn is imprisoned inadvertently opened and jinn escapes to kill his captor. N339.17
• Demon enclosed in bottle released. R181
• Punishment for profane use of the cross. Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine. V86.3
• The squint-eyed son and the bottle. Sent by his father to get the only bottle of rare wine, he sees two. Not wishing to show his father to be a liar, he breaks one – really the only one. X121.1
• Death enclosed in a bottle. Z111.1
• Death imprisoned by a soldier in a magic knapsack, bottle or nutshell. Z111.1.1