46 motifs match “candle”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.) A2012.1
• Deer with candles on the tops of their antlers. B253.6
• Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.) C916.1
• Transformation: monkey to candle-moth. D411.5.2
• A candle becomes stone. D471.9
• Disenchantment by maidens walking with lighted candles in procession. D759.6
• Magic candle. D1162.2
• Hand-of-glory. Magic candle made of criminal's hand. D1162.2.1
• Each drop of innocent blood turns to burning candle. D1318.5.3
• Burning candle stuck with pins fetches lover. D1355.3.6
• "Hand of glory" renders light invisible. Candles of human fat from dead man's hand make light invisible except to man holding it. (Cf. D1162.2.1.) D1361.7
• Hand-of-glory does not awaken sleepers. The hand is lighted as a candle. D1575.1
• Ever-burning candle. (Cf. D1162.2.) D1652.11
• Candle burned causes victim to waste away. D2061.2.2.6
• Saint kindles her lamp or candle without using fire. D2158.1.5.1
• Resuscitation by candle. (Cf. D1162.2.) E64.6
• Candle light protection against ghost. E434.9
• Ghost laid by group of ministers. By prayer and services, usually with "bell, book, and candle" or some modification of the procedure. E443.2.4.1
• Soul as taper (candle). E742.1
• Life bound up with candle. When the candle goes out, person dies. E765.1.1
• Remarkable candlestick. F789.2
• Jeweled candlestick. F789.2.1
• Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) G303.12.5.4
• The devil is exorcised with bell, book, and candle. G303.16.14.4
• Test of king (pope): his candle lights itself. H41.3
• Grade of holiness tested: one whose candle burns down first. H257.1
• Special power of chaste woman: blowing out candle with one puff and relighting it with another. H413.1
• 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
• How to tell the right hand in the dark. Numskull keeps the candle at his right side as he goes to bed so that he can do so. J1735.1
• Animal with lighted candle thought to be ghost. (Cf. K335.0.5.1.) J1782.5
• The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse. J1908.1
• Examining the sundial by candle-light. Numskull tries to find the time of night. J1943
• Candle put in the stove to dry: melts. J2122
• Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter. J2181
• "Hang out lanterns." Officer calls to householders to hang out lanterns. One hangs out lantern but does not light it. The next night the officer calls to them to hang out lanterns and candles. He hangs out a lantern with a candle in it but unlighted. The next night the officer calls out to hang out lanterns and candlelight. J2516.5
• Sailor offers saint a candle as large as a mast. But he knows that after the storm he will not try to find such a candle. K231.3.1
• Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them. K335.0.5.1
• Robber with hand of glory killed. A robber disguised as a beggar gets night's lodging at a farm house. Using a candle made of human fat or hand of a corpse, he tries to charm the household into a deep sleep (D1162.2.1). One man who is suspicious and has not gone to sleep sees this and kills the robber. K437.2
• Let me live as long as this candle lasts. Man who has sold his soul to devil thus escapes. (Cf. G303.12.5.4.) K551.9
• Wife hides lover under bed. When husband comes in she drops candle and sends him out for another, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1521.4.1
• Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. Q478.4
• Festival of Imbolg (Brigit, Candlemas). V70.6
• Holy candles. V133
• Lazy man's belongings burn. He is too lazy to stop rats from playing with lighted candle. W111.1.1.2
• Miser dies because he will not buy a candle. W153.11
• Dying miser tells son to extinguish candle just as soon as he dies. W153.11.1