103 motifs match “burned” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Third sky above prevents earth being burned by sun. A651.1.1.1
• Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
• Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat. A739.3
• All countries burned while the wife of sun god pours fire from a small bowl. A1031.4.1
• Eel burned by torch: hence red eyes. A2218.8
• Dog burned in jumping contest over fire: enmity between dog and hare. A2253.1
• Magic pig burned to prevent resuscitation. B192.1
• Helpful animals quench execution fire. Master is to be burned at stake. B526.1
• Transformation by being burned. (Cf. D1787.) D576
• Rue, when burned, keeps evil spirits at a distance. (Cf. D965.16.) D1385.2.2
• Magic door catches bear so that he is burned to death. (Cf. D1146.) D1402.9
• Magic incense (when burned) summons genie. D1421.1.7
• Ashes from burned snake-woman's body will turn anything into gold. D1469.10.1
• Holy maidens carry glowing embers in their chasubles without being burned. D1841.3.2.4
• Invulnerability by being burned and anointed with magic ointments. (Cf. D1244.) D1846.1
• Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. D1865.2.1
• Hair of victim burned, causing his death. D2061.2.2.4.1
• Candle burned causes victim to waste away. D2061.2.2.6
• Clothes burned by magic. D2089.8
• Person burned through magic wishing (curse). D2144.4.1
• Animal burned to cure disease. Especially for disease among animals. D2161.4.7
• Bone of man being burned jumps out of fire. E15.0.1
• Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. E235.2.2
• Corpse burned to prevent return. E431.13
• Fairies' underground palace cannot be burned by fire nor destroyed by water. F222.1.1
• Hair burned to summon fairies. F398
• Conversation of two fire-spirits. Shall house be burned? F497.1
• Giantess with burned arms. F531.1.6.7.3
• Fire spares saint's tunic, though wearer is burned. F964.2
• Person has red and black countenance after being burned. F1082.1
• Witch causes person to be burned. G269.14
• Witch burned by furrows drawn round her home. G273.5.1
• Witch burned. G275.3
• Witch burned by burning bewitched animal. G275.3.1
• Ogre burned to death. G512.3
• Ogre burned in his own oven. G512.3.2
• Ogre's wife (daughter) burned in his own oven. G512.3.2.1
• Recognition by hole burned in hand when woman removes glove. H56.1
• What house gives no hostages, cannot be burned, and cannot be harried? (The fairy stronghold [sídh] of brugh na Boinne.) H768
• Wizard (druid) burned, saint saved in test of power of Christianity. H1573.3.4
• Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." J1478
• Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• Substitute for candle repaid with substitute for money. A monk gives a man a stick instead of the candle the man has wanted to burn before a holy picture. The monk says that it will have the same effect as if the candle were burned. The man takes out his purse and lets the monk touch it. J1551.5
• The fool puts but one stick of wood in the stove. "Several others have burned up." J1963
• How was the town burned? J2062.3
• Expensive wood burned to make charcoal. J2094
• House burned down to rid it of insects. J2102.4
• House burned down to get rid of lizard. J2102.4.1
• Clothes burned to rid them of insects. J2102.6
• Crop burned to rid it of insects. J2102.7
• House burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.) J2103.3
• Peas will burn. Fool warns those who ride through a field of peas. "You will burn your horses' feet. I burned my mouth with hot peas the other day." J2214.1
• Imitation of jumping into fire without injury: dupe burned up. J2411.6
• Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing. K278
• Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned. K711.3
• Intruder captured in chimney. Burned. K732
• Victim burned in building. K745
• Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place). K812
• Dupe's house set afire so that he is burned in trying to put out fire. K812.1
• Dupes persuaded to be burned, thinking they will be sent back with gifts. K843.1
• Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death. K851
• King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion. K947
• Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.) K1010.1
• Crocodile hides in strawstack and is burned to death. K1055.1
• Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
• Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. K1615
• Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. K1733
• Impostor acting as God in tree suspected and tree burned. K1971.12
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Uxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bath. N339.5
• Husband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their home. N658
• Suttee. Wife burned with dead king. P16.4.1
• Desecrated church burned by burning straw carried by sparrow. (This is done through power of saint.) Q222.5.5
• Harlot punished by being burned (in hell). Q243.1.1
• Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Q331.2.1.2
• Innocent queen burned at stake. Q414.0.7
• Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor. Q414.0.12.1
• Criminal's house burned down. Q486.1
• City of king who opposed saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.13.2.1
• Church which refused to bury saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.13.2.2
• Souls in hell alternately drowned and burned. Q562.2
• Cattle killed, crops burned as punishment for abduction. (Cf. Q213.) Q595.2
• Slandered wife is locked in tower for forty days. If no champion appears, she is to be burned. Former suitor rescues her. R41.2.1
• Rescue from being burned. (Cf. R175.) R117
• House burned (torn) down to deliver man imprisoned in it. R121.3
• Ships burned to prevent flight. R244
• Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon. S54.1
• City burned with all inhabitants. S112.0.1
• House (hostel) burned with all inside. S112.0.2
• Corpses burned as fuel for cooking. S139.2.2.5
• Disobedient child burned. S326.1
• Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge. T211.2.1.1
• Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.) V61.2
• Burned clothes restored to their previous form. V229.10.1
• Jewish child resurrected (saved by power of Virgin Mary) after being burned to ashes for eating consecrated bread in Christian church. V363.1
• Man is burned to death because he is too lazy to put out spark. W111.1.1.1
• Man had rather be burned alive than to share food with a guest. W152.2
• Miserly husband spies on wife to see that she does not eat too much. Gets burned in the chimney and beaten in the bed where he hides. W153.2
• Lie: sea has burned up. (Often with answer: "Many fried fish.") X908