58 motifs match “branch”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tree to heaven from goddess' necklace which she hangs on branch. A652.1.1
• Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world. A652.2
• Goddess in anger breaks herself into five parts: hence, five branches of a river. A934.11.3
• Tabu: cutting branches of tree. C513.1
• Transformation: branch of tree to animal. D441.3
• Transformation: branch of tree to palace. D451.1.0.1
• Magic branch of peace. Warfare ceases when it is shaken. (Cf. D954.) D1351.2
• Olive branch insures fidelity of husband. Wife to beat him with it. (Cf. D954.) D1355.8
• Magic olive branch makes woman master in household. (Cf. D954.) D1359.1.1
• Magic musical branch soothes listeners. (Cf. D1615.2.) D1359.3.1.2
• Musical branch causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1615.2.) D1364.25.0.1
• Magic fluid takes away magic powers. Fluid is to be sprinkled with a willow branch. (Cf. D1242.) D1410.3
• Magic branch catches fish. (Cf. D954.) D1444.1.3
• Tree with silver branches. (Cf. D950, F811.1.2.) D1461.0.2
• Branch which dries up water in great river so person can cross. (Cf. D954.) D1542.3.3
• Magic branch when used as a threshing pole produces marvelous harvest of rice. (Cf. D954.) D1563.1.6
• Magic song causes tree to rise to sky. Has moon and Great Bear in its branches. (Cf. D1275.) D1576.1
• Banana tree tells who cut its branches. (Cf. D950.) D1612.1.2
• Magic musical branch. (Cf. D954, F811.6.) D1615.2
• Branch leaps from hand to hand. (Cf. D954.) D1641.6
• Tree with all sorts of cakes hanging from its branches springs from one cake. D2106.3
• Exorcising invisible man by flailing air with peach branch. D2176.6
• Tree of Life. (Cf. D950.) Resuscitation by touching its branches. E90
• Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
• Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) E631.0.1
• Dry branch on innocent man's grave blossoms as proof of innocence. E631.0.5.1
• Branching tree as roadway for souls. E750.2.3
• Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
• Tree with musical branches. F811.6
• Tree's branches turn upward when idolators rest beneath it. F979.20
• Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank. F1071.1
• Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. G519.5
• Branches broken from tree to prove journey. H84.1
• Question: "What is under my cloak?" Questioner has branch of blackthorn laden with berries under her cloak. H526
• Man uses umbrella under trees. (To protect self from falling branches and bird droppings.) H591.2
• Youth asks for branch of tree; promised root. (Branch = youngest daughter; root = eldest.) H611
• Roots and branches of World-tree explained symbolically. H619.3
• Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights. H721.1
• Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
• Task: bringing branch from tree guarded by ghosts. H1151.10
• Quest for branches of tree guarded by dragon. H1333.6
• Ambitious branch chosen king of trees. Vine and fig tree have refused. J956
• Numskull sticks his head in the branches of a tree. J2131.5.3
• Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
• Titmouse receives permission to sit on branch and sing before being sacrificed. K551.3.7
• Capture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get loose. K742
• Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.) K1872.1
• Cat brings suspicion between eagle and sow. Eagle lives in the top of the branches, cat in the middle, and sow at bottom; all are happy. Cat tells eagle that sow is trying to root down the tree: eagle is frightened and dares not leave tree. Cat tells sow that eagle plans to carry off pigs: sow dares not leave. They starve and fall victims to the cat. K2131.1
• Raja to marry girl when cut mango branch blooms. M261.1.1
• Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch. N325.1
• Feud between two branches of family. P201.1
• Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall. Q501.2
• Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch. Q521.1
• Lightning strikes branch on which man is being hanged. Delay gives him chance to prove his innocence. (Cf. R175.) R341.1
• Sacrifice: olive branch laid on altar of Mercy. V15
• Saint falling into an abyss found perched in the branches of a tree which projected from the cliff. As soon as the man is drawn up, the tree vanishes. V222.10
• Never. Various ways of expressing this idea. When black sheep turn white, when a dry branch sprouts, etc. Z61
• Olive branch symbol of peace. Z157