96 motifs match “carrying”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal characteristics: punishment for carrying devil into paradise. A2236.2
• Crocodile is punished for trying to attack man he is carrying: has only half tongue. A2239.7
• Animal characteristics from contest in carrying. A2251
• Animal's occupation: carrying. A2451
• Animal languages learned from carrying churchyard mould in hat. B217.4
• Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image. C56
• Tabu: defecating while carrying image of a god. C56.1
• Tabu: stopping enroute while carrying image of a god. C56.2
• Tabu: carrying corpse of woman who died in childbirth. C153.1
• Tabu: not to lay down basket carrying bride on wedding journey. C169.1
• Tabu: carrying food at night. C751.8
• Tabu: carrying child on one's back into house. C875
• Disenchantment of girl by carrying her on back. D732.1
• Carrying saint's book around army right-handwise insures victory. (Cf. D1266.) D1381.25
• Trial by ordeal subverted by carrying magic object. D1394.1
• Evil omen: scavenger carrying headload of wood. D1812.5.1.29
• Magic carrying power of voice. D1921
• Man made to appear to pursuers as woman carrying babe. D2031.6.1
• Saint's prayer brings large flight of birds carrying stones in talons. These missiles dropped upon enemies cause terror. D2163.5.1
• Resuscitation by carrying corpse to its home. E138
• Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.) E261.1.3
• Revenant as woman carrying baby. E425.1.4
• Wild huntsmen carrying skull under arms. E501.7.4
• Familiar spirit acquired by carrying egg under left arm-pit. F403.2.1.1
• Dwarf groans while carrying an ear of corn. F451.3.9.1
• Strong man swims carrying fifty (many) companions. F631.3
• Tent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying it. F923
• Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. G561
• Ogre carrying mortar and pestle. G676
• Ordeal: carrying live coals in robe or cloak without harm to garment or bearer. H221.1.1
• Ordeal: carrying murdered man's blood. Must not spill it. H227
• Suitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one day. H331.10
• Special power of chaste woman: carrying water in sieve. H413.3
• Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
• Task: carrying water in a sieve. H1023.2
• Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss. H1023.2.0.1
• Task: carrying water in sieve; pious child able to do so. H1023.2.0.2
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel. H1023.2.1
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; vessel repaired with clay or gum. H1023.2.1.1
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; frog sits in hole. H1023.2.1.2
• Task: carrying woman across river without wetting feet. Hero fails. H1046
• Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time. H1111
• Task: carrying ever-increasing burden up mountain. H1114.2
• Task: carrying off huge quantity of money. H1127
• Task: carrying soil to cover stony ground. H1129.3
• Task: carrying fuel. H1129.11
• Task: carrying mountain on head. H1146
• Task: capturing magic pig carrying scissors, comb, and razors between its ears. H1154.1
• Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel. H1183
• Magician assigned three places at a table. He confesses to carrying two persons in his body. J1141.2
• Whom it concerns. There is someone carrying a goose. How does that concern me? He is carrying it to your house. How does that concern you? J1353
• The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
• 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
• Too large a payment. A student leaving the university sends back a small coin to pay for the knowledge he is carrying away, although he says that he is really paying too much. J1559.3
• Numskull thinks fireflies are mosquitoes carrying lanterns to find victims. J1759.3
• Inability to find object one is carrying. J2025
• The trusted porters. A man finds a treasure, but is robbed by porters whom he has employed to rid him of the trouble of carrying it. J2092
• Servant carrying master across stream answers question with gesture that throws master off. J2133.5.1.1
• Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.) J2163
• Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down. J2165
• Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been. J2242
• Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
• Deceptive contest in carrying a horse. The ogre carries it on his back and soon tires; the man carries it between his legs (rides). K72
• Stealing the platter for the intended gift. Thief asks for silver platter saying that it is needed for an intended gift of confections. Servant carrying platter is told to wait until it is filled. Thief disappears with it. K362.3.1
• Thieves escape detection by carrying woman on bier and drowning her outcries with wailing. K419.8
• Old wife provokes sparrow to speak and therefore drop new wife whom he is carrying in his beak. K929.10
• Tiger persuaded to cross river carrying vat rim-upwards. Trickster fills it with stones and tiger loses it. K1183
• Trickster sets fire to barrel of tow in which paramour is hidden. The paramour, naked, runs out carrying wisps of burning tow. The trickster tells the husband that he has raised the devil. K1554.1
• Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person. K1810.1
• Disguise by carrying false token. K1839.8
• Impostors tricked into carrying hero in box. Woman makes them think they will have her as reward. K1942
• Mule carrying corn escapes while one carrying gold is robbed. L453
• Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime. M175
• Turtle carrying man through water upsets him because of a broken promise. M205.1.1
• Fish (whale) carrying man through water shakes him off when man strikes him with coconut. M205.1.1.1
• Blind man carrying lame man as guardians of treasure. N577
• Numskull's outcry overawes tiger who is carrying him on his back. Tiger thinks that words are the name of the "demon" riding him. N691.1
• Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.) Q25
• Reward for carrying out dead man's request. Q37
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.) Q511
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave. Q511.1
• Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it. Q511.2
• Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms. Q521.1.2
• Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.) Q521.2
• Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off. Q521.3
• Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Q552.16.1.2
• Flight carrying friend (girl) on back. R242
• Daughter promised to tiger in marriage for help in carrying load. (Cf. B620.1.) S232
• Attempt to keep wife chaste by carrying her in box. In spite of all precautions she meets men. T382
• Child born carrying knife and calabash. T552.3
• Child born carrying handful of hair. T552.4
• Child born carrying a stone. T552.6
• Many books do not make a scholar: youth tricks mother by carrying many books. U111.1
• Scorpion, in spite of himself, stings the turtle carrying him across the stream. Is drowned. U124
• Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.) X21
• Life personified: old woman carrying healing potions and salves. Z113