72 motifs match “bringing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Bringing deluge to end. A1028
• Deity rewards animal for bringing him water: cause of present characteristics. A2221.11
• Elephants have power of bringing rain. B791
• Tabu: bringing arms to capital after sunset. C752.1.1
• Tabu: bringing head of slain enemy within village walls. C845.1
• Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness. D2004
• Door to otherworld island sounds sleep-bringing music. F156.1
• Suitor test: bringing leg that fits into dragon claw left by the beloved of the princess. H322.3
• Suitor test: bringing maiden's lost shoe. H322.4
• Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak. H343
• Suitor test: bringing marvelous tree. H355.3
• Man marries girl bringing his clothes soonest. H375.2
• Task: bringing quantity of mosquito bones within month; countertask: furnishing scales with wind as beams and heat as pans. (Cf. H951.) H1022.9
• Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.2
• Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter. H1023.3
• Task: bringing berries in winter. Reductio ad absurdum: father is sick from snake-bite (impossible in winter). (Cf. H952.) H1023.3.1
• Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.) H1023.17
• Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. H1023.19
• Task: bringing a well (pond, lake) to king. Hero asks for another lake to tie to it and overawes king. H1023.25
• Task: bringing well to king; countertask: sending his own well to accompany it. (Cf. H951.) H1023.25.1
• Task: bringing past time to present. H1026.2
• Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it. H1041
• Task: going to get nothing and bringing it back. H1045.1
• Task: cutting and bringing leaves from thorn thicket without tearing them at all. H1046.2
• Task: bringing melon 12 cubits long with seed 13 cubits long. H1047
• Task: bringing the foam of the ocean in a large piece of cloth. H1049.1
• Task: bringing best friend, worst enemy, best servant, greatest pleasure-giver. (Brings dog, wife, ass, little son respectively.) H1065
• Task: bringing something ever-increasing (ambition); something ever-decreasing (life); something which neither increases nor decreases (one's fated lot); and something which both increases and decreases (universe). H1075
• Task: bringing documents from distant city in one day. H1107
• Task: bringing water from distant fountain more quickly than a witch. H1109.1
• Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.) H1117
• Task: bringing twelve cartloads of mud without the use of buffaloes. H1129.1.1
• Task: building a fire; whole tree burns up while man is bringing another. H1129.5
• Task: bringing winds from the whole world. H1136
• Task: bringing back flour scattered by wind. H1136.1
• Task: bringing branch from tree guarded by ghosts. H1151.10
• Task: bringing a baby lion's tail to use as broom. H1151.11
• Task: bringing ruby in head of devastating serpent. H1151.26
• Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) H1152.1
• Task: bringing head(s) of animal(s). H1154.0.1
• Task: bringing tigers. H1154.3.7
• Task: bringing in fierce lion alive. H1154.12
• Task: bringing an ogre to court. H1172
• Task: bringing back two heads of a giant. H1174.1
• Bringing fairies to court. H1177
• Task: beheading witch, and bringing head to king. H1191.1
• Task: achieving kingship by bringing silk from bazaar. H1355.4
• Fear test: bringing from a hill, seized by a demon, the fattest of goats. H1423.3
• Confession induced by bringing an unjust action against accused. False message to thief's wife to send the stolen jewel case as bribe to the judge. She does. J1141.4
• Priest bringing Host to dying man sees thief on his fig tree. Shouts vituperations at him. J1261.2.6
• Were merely measuring cup. King demands that each subject bring small amount of milk to put in his new cup. They plan to cheat him by bringing him water. Accused, they say that they were merely measuring the cup to see how much it would take to fill it. J1391.7
• Contest with magician in bringing grain out of closed bamboo: trickster brings culm-borers to make holes. K69.1
• Bringing the devil an unknown animal. The man sends his naked wife on all fours in tar and feathers. The devil has never seen such an animal. K216.2
• 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
• Escape by playing sleep-bringing music. K606.1.2
• Capture with aid of sleep-bringing music. K776.1
• Seduction by bringing false order from husband. K1354.2
• Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. K1741.3
• Life spared for bringing a dreaded enemy without weapon. M234.2
• The luck-bringing shirt. The king is to become lucky when he puts on the shirt of a lucky man. The only man who says that he is lucky has no shirt. N135.3
• The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
• The luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunate. N251.6
• Delay in bringing pardon allows deserved execution. Messenger, ignorant of contents of message, stops to view culprit's execution. N394
• Bringing suit in law courts. P523
• Reward for bringing rain. Q93.1
• Son frees father by bringing riddle the king cannot solve. (Cf. H542.) R154.2.1
• Adulteress on her death-bed reveals the illegitimacy of her children. Did not want her husband to be burdened with their bringing up. T238
• Saint drives away an army by bringing upon it a dense and smoky cloud. (Cf. D2163.4.) V229.7.1
• Ruler reproaches son for bringing him the head of his fallen enemy. Latter given honorable burial. W11.5.6
• Lazy wife in soiled dress thinks husband is bringing her a new dress from market. He is bringing a goose. W111.3.1
• The singing wolf. By his singing the wolf compels the old man to surrender his cattle, his children and grandchildren, and finally his wife. The old woman goes in the wolf's service. She returns home bringing butter, etc. Z33.4.2
• Trial among the animals. Deer steps on kitten: cat investigates. Deer has been frightened by bird, this bird by another bird .... by crab's pointed claw, crab by mouse in his hole. Cat eats mouse. (Frog croaks because turtle carries his house on his head; turtle carries house because firefly is bringing fire; firefly brings fire because mosquito tries to bite him, etc.) Z49.6