97 motifs match “building”  ·  back to the chapters

• Deluge: escape on floating building. A1021.0.6
• Acquisition of building crafts. A1445
• Origin of boat-building. A1445.1
• Man learns housebuilding from wasp. A1445.2.2
• Dragon lives under the ground. By his movements a building or village will be dislodged. (Cf. A1070.) B11.3.5
• Building site determined by halting of animal. Where the animal stops the building is erected. B155.1
• Building site determined by other action of animal. B155.1.0.1
• Tabu: building too large a structure. C771
• Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) C771.1
• Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.) C931
• Enchanted castle (building). D6
• Transformation: man to building. D268
• Magic buildings and parts. D1130
• Magic buildings and parts – miscellaneous. D1149
• Saint's staff becomes tree to indicate building site. D1314.2.5
• Magic building provides treasure. D1457
• Magic object produces building. D1483
• Lime used in building church as cure. (Cf. D931.1.4.) D1500.1.10.6
• Magic lyre charms stones into their place in building. (Cf. D1231.1.) D1565.2
• Lime (for building church) miraculously renewed by power of saint. D1652.16
• Omen at laying foundation of building. D1812.5.2.8
• Magic discovery of place for (church) building. D1816.6
• "Golden" son of supernatural bride of king has the power of producing gold and gold buildings, ornaments etc. D2102.4
• Supernatural agency moves new church foundation (or building materials) to another site, at night. D2192.1
• Body placed in building and worshipped until it comes to life. (Cf. E62.) E63.1
• Ghosts haunt buildings. (Cf. H1411.) E280
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts building. See E281, E402. E338
• Ghost laid and confined inside building. E437.6
• Ghost-like building. E531
• Buildings in otherworld. F163
• Fairies set fire to buildings. F369.1
• Spirits ascend to heaven by building fire. F407.1.1
• Water-spirits interfere with building bridges, dams. (Cf. F451.5.2.5.) F420.5.2.5
• Dwarfs interfere with mortal's work (destroy buildings, crops, etc.) (Cf. F420.5.2.5.) F451.5.2.5
• Giants by night move buildings built by men in day. F531.6.6.1
• Strong man pulls down building. F627
• Extraordinary buildings and furnishings. F770
• Building at bottom of which flows stream of rubies. F771.12
• Extraordinary buildings and furnishings – miscellaneous. F789
• All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside. F911.6
• Building sinks into earth. F941
• Witch bewitches buildings. G265.8.5
• Devil builds a building. G303.9.1.13
• Devil works backward. Begins building at top of house. G303.13.2
• Suitor test: building causeway. (Cf. H1131.) H359.1
• Symbolic interpretation of ineffectual thatching of house and building of fire in otherworld. (Cf. F171.6.5, F171.6.6.) H619.4
• Riddle: what house was full of dead? (Philistines in the building demolished by Samson.) H831
• Task: building castle suspended between heaven and earth. H1036
• Task: building house neither on ground nor in sky. H1077
• Task: building castle in one night. H1104
• Task: building castle in three days. H1104.0.1
• Task: building a lodge entirely of bird's feathers in one night. H1104.1
• Task: building entire village in one night. H1104.2
• Task: building a house of iron in one night. H1104.3
• Task: building granary full of grain overnight. H1104.5
• Task: building a fire; whole tree burns up while man is bringing another. H1129.5
• Task: building causeway, clearing land, etc. H1129.6
• Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.) H1131
• Task: building bridge over land and sea. H1131.1
• Task: building castle (fort). H1133
• Task: building magic castle. H1133.1
• Task: building castle in air. H1133.2
• Task: building castle in sea. H1133.3
• Task: building palace of gold (crystal). H1133.4
• Task: building palace and city. H1133.5
• Task: building exact replica of castle in wax. H1133.6
• Lazy pupil determines to be more diligent by watching man building home one wattle at a time, and seeing how water fills hole one drop at a time. J67.1
• Accused woman to go three times around building naked: guilty one begins to strip off her clothes. J1141.1.8
• Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. J1143
• Short-sightedness in boat-building. J2171.1
• Building boat of clay. J2171.1.3.2
• Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
• Contest in bridge-building won by deception. K48
• Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building. K315.1
• The devil gets into the ark. The devil wants to know what Noah is doing when he is building the ark. He forbids Noah's wife to enter the ark until Noah has also invited him. K485
• Victim burned in building. K745
• Hero entices enemies into building and sets fire to it. K925.1
• Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattle. K1441
• Noah's secret betrayed by his wife. The devil persuades his wife to intoxicate him and then find out what he is doing (building the ark). K2213.4.2
• Man sells soul to devil in return for devil's building house (barn, etc.). M211.2
• Destruction and rebuilding of church foreseen by saint. M364.10
• Curse by "building a fire of stones" in fireplace. The person who removes the stones is cursed. M418.1
• Treasure hidden in building. N517
• Officer comes accidentally to the same building where the fugitive sleeps. N618
• King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. P15.7
• Miraculous flow of blood from desecrated building or object. Q222.0.2
• Masons who build mausoleum of princess lose their right hands so they may never again construct so fine a building. (Cf. S165.7, W181.2.) S161.0.1
• Foundation sacrifice. A human being buried alive at base of the foundation of a building or bridge. S261
• Religious buildings. V110
• Stones for building church (chapel) miraculously supplied. (Cf. D931.0.1.) V111.2
• Supply of lime for building church miraculously renewed for saint. V224.5
• Workers (builder) killed when secret building or grave is finished. (Cf. W181.2.) W154.21
• King kills architect after completion of great building, so that he may never again build one so great. (Cf. S161.0.1, W154.21.) W181.2
• Lie: remarkable buildings. X1030
• The great building. X1030.1
• Lie: shingling the fog. Man shingling building during thick fog shingles several feet of fog when he gets beyond the roof line. X1651.1
• Nine materials used in building Tower of Babel. Z71.6.4