31 motifs match “built”  ·  back to the chapters

• Hill as unfinished tower built in the likeness of Nimrod's tower. A963.8
• First church bell built on model of bluebell. A1466.1
• Why crow's nest is not tightly built. A2431.3.6.2
• Birds indicate the place where a town (castle) is to be built. B155.2.3
• Pursued animal indicates where city is to be built. B155.2.4
• City built by magic. D2178.1
• Soul wanders and demands that a temple be built for him. E419.1
• Giants by night move buildings built by men in day. F531.6.6.1
• Castle built on sea. F771.2.4
• Devil in each stone of church built with ill-gotten wealth. G303.8.4.2
• Devil builds an inn for a man in competition with a church being built. G303.9.1.10
• Devil helps build Halberstadt Cathedral thinking a tavern is being built. G303.9.1.12
• The devil destroys by night what is built by day. G303.14.1
• King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds. J1873.4
• The pent cuckoo. Fools build an enclosure to keep in the cuckoo. She flies over the hedge. They say that they have not built the hedge high enough. J1904.2
• Nest built in tree for fish. J1904.4
• Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it. J2171.1.1
• The bathroom in the minaret. The fool can sing in the small bathroom but cannot be heard from the minaret. He wants a bathroom built on the minaret so that his voice will carry. J2237
• Fool thankful that God has built a palace without columns. Else the stones might fall down and kill us. J2565
• How the tower was built. Fool gives three explanations: (1) It was formerly a deep well; dug up and set out; (2) it was built by a very tall man; (3) it was built flat on the ground and then set up. J2711
• Palace being built in heaven for pious king. Q172.4
• Church built by usurer's money made to collapse by devil. Q273.4
• Devils carry away stones of church built with ill-gotten money. Q274.1
• Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt. Q521.7
• Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.) Q552.14.1
• Faithful servant locks his master and his friend up in a little house built from wood from their wrecked ships; they falsely think themselves betrayed. R53.4
• Artisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.) S165.7
• Place where a church must be built miraculously indicated. V111.3
• Birds indicate the site where a church is to be built by making a model of the structure on the spot. V111.3.1
• The house that Jack built. Final formula: This is the farmer that sowed the corn that fed the cock that crowed in the morn, that waked the priest all shaven and shorn, that married the man all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumpled horn, that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. Z44
• Twenty-two rooms and twenty-two doors built by skillful carpenter. Z71.16.14.1