36 motifs match “breasts”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun and moon from breasts of mother earth. (Cf. A401.) A715.4
• Origin of women's breasts. A1313.4
• Women at first with breasts on their foreheads. A1313.4.1
• Elephant loses its breasts. A2353.3
• Why bears do not have breasts for nursing. A2353.4
• Why fruit of date palm looks like breasts of old woman. A2791.11
• Harpy. Bird with arms and breasts of woman. B52
• Mermaid has large breasts. B81.9.2
• Female bears have no breasts to nurse their young – suck paws. B725
• Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. C942.4
• Magic breasts of woman. D1009.3
• Fairies have breasts long enough to throw over their shoulders. F232.2
• Wood-nymph with breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F460.1.2, G123.) F441.2.1.2
• Mountain-wife has breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F441.2.1.2, F531.1.5.1, G123.) F460.1.2
• Breasts of giantess. F531.1.5
• Giantess throws her breasts over her shoulders. Her two sons can run after her and suck. F531.1.5.1
• Woman with three breasts. F546.2
• Woman with breasts hot enough to cook food. (Cf. F593.) F546.5
• Loom made of woman's breasts with vagina as shuttle. F856.1
• Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. G36.1
• Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder. G123
• Witch sucks blood from woman's or child's breasts. G262.1.2
• Recognition by large breasts that woman in bed is not husband's wife. H79.6
• Recognition of son by gushing up of milk in mother's breasts. H175.1
• Capture by sight of women's breasts. Women with uncovered breasts meet hero. He averts his face and is captured. K774
• Sight of women's breasts used to appease enemies. K774.1
• Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.9
• Punishment: woman's breasts cut off. Q451.9
• Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Q451.9.1
• Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Q452
• Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts. T215.2
• Maiden sends to her lecherous lover (brother) her eyes (hands, breasts) which he has admired. T327.1
• Black nipples of girl's breasts reveal her loss of virginity. T494
• Milk medicine fills woman's breasts with milk. T592.1
• Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years. T611.9
• Vision in which chieftain sees pair of gray seals that sucked at his two breasts. They are two of his allies who are being overpowered by invaders. V515.2.1