26 motifs match “bundle”  ·  back to the chapters

• Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns. A751.1.4
• Creation in covered vessel. Men (or animals) created in a basket or from a bundle, or from under a blanket. A1295
• Origin of death from unwise choice. Choice between two bundles, one containing tempting articles, the other everlasting life. People choose the large bundle and lose everlasting life. A1335.3
• Why ants carry large bundles. (Cf. A2221.4.) A2451.1
• Transformation: writing tablets to bundle. D454.11
• Bundle of wood magically acts as riding horse. D1523.3
• Ghost sails over sound on bundle of straw. E581.7
• Fairy in form of a bundle of rags. F234.3.3
• Devil in form of ungainly bundle. G303.3.4.10
• Chief in disguise carries bundle so large that rank is recognized. H41.10
• Task: making sails for ship from one bundle of linen; countertask: making spindle and loom from one stick of wood. (Cf. H951.) H1022.3
• Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. H1023.19
• Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
• The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
• The inventive coachman. Makes the horses run by binding a bundle of hay to the shaft. J1671
• Dog follows washerwoman with bundle hoping for meat. J2066.6.1
• Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
• The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." K434.1
• Tortoise cheats leopard by substituting bundle of resin for bundle of meat. K476.1.2
• Hare escapes lion by being bundled in brushwood. K521.10
• Leopard concealed in bundle betrays self when threat is made to run spear through bundle. K607.3.3
• Fox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the water. K921
• Treasure found in bundle of rags. N526
• Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. (Cf. Q321.) Q495.1
• Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.) Q551.2.8
• The old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herself. X752