25 motifs match “burnt”  ·  back to the chapters

• Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up. A724.1.1
• 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
• Why the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire. A1115.3
• Insects from body of slain monster. Usually the monster is burnt; sometimes the insects come from his head, sometimes from his body as it burns. (Cf. A1716.1.) A2001
• Coyote burnt when hay is set afire: hence yellow patch behind his ears. A2218.4
• Burnt smell of mink. A2416.2
• Burnt smell of wolverine. A2416.4
• Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees. A2731.1
• Hairs of lion, when burnt, get owner out of difficulties. (Cf. D1023.) D1390.1
• Ashes of burnt hero revive. E174.1
• Fires burnt in streets to ward off witches. G272.4
• Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
• Ordeal: virgin to pull on hot iron and name men. Only with guilty will she and he be burnt. H221.2.1
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Cuts wood which was burnt last year. (To pay old debts.) H583.2.4
• 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
• Corpse to be cut in two for easy carrying. Husband who feigns death hears wife propose this. He upbraids her; she replies: "If you had really died I should have given myself up to be burnt." J1545.8
• Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt. J2101.1
• Literal numskull throws water on roasting pig. Told that he should have thrown water in the fire when the house burnt. J2461.1.3
• Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
• Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail. K581.5
• Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. K1315.2.1
• "Burnt-belly" as hero. L112.5
• Prophecy: sinners to be burnt by fire on Doomsday. M341.2.7.1
• Ravisher's grave and body miraculously burnt. Q414.0.4.1
• Sinful city burnt as punishment. Q486.1.1