1,099 motifs match “cause” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Lucifer causes fall of man. A63.5
• Satan seduces Adam to sin because he is jealous of him. A63.5.1
• God's voice causes thunder. A139.5.2
• God bores hole in Hell to cause great heat on earth. A141.3
• God's throne becomes hot because of activities on earth. A152.9
• Kiss of God causes painless death. A185.6.1.1
• God causes mortals' sin. A185.14.1
• Goddess causes famine. A431.1.3
• Culture hero spares certain evil spirits. Old Age, Cold, Poverty, and Hunger beg the culture hero not to destroy them because of their real usefulness to man. A531.1
• Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place. A625.2
• Heavenly music caused by four columns under Lord's chair. A661.0.2.1
• Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick. A702.8
• Formerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankind. A720.2
• Sun hidden at night because afraid to wander. A722.6
• 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
• Causes of eclipses (sun or moon). A737
• Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon. A737.1
• Cause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third son. A737.2
• Toad causes eclipses of the sun. A737.3
• Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. A737.4
• Moon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attacked. A737.5
• Eclipses caused by animal hiding sun behind his body. A737.6
• Eclipses because sun cannot endure tragic happenings of history. A737.10
• Partial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon. A737.11
• Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
• Causes of moon's phases. A755
• Moon's phases caused by its being put in box. (Cf. A754). When it is closed up in the box, it is dark; when taken out of the box, light. A755.1
• Moon's phases caused by watcher's death. Moon is hung in tree and is tended by four men. As one dies it loses a quarter. Later it is united in the lower world. A755.2
• Moon's waning caused by her sickness. A755.3
• Moon's phases caused by animals gnawing at edge. A755.4.3
• Moon's phases caused by feeding or starving. A755.5
• Moon's waning caused by menstrual period. A755.7
• God causes primeval sea to roll back and leave bare all the hills. A816.3
• Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth. A832
• Topographical features caused by experiences of primitive hero (demigod, deity). Footprints of the gods, thoroughfares of heroes, etc. A901
• Natural features because of combat of huge rock columns with each other. A901.2
• Topographical features caused by animals. A903
• Tide caused by breathing of sea-monster. A913.2
• Meander-pursuit. (Cf. A901.) – A fugitive's doublings cause a river's windings. A931
• Cloth from goddess, when spread by holy man over a spot, causes water to spring from earth. A941.5.6
• Breaking forth of springs partial cause of Flood. A941.6
• Contours of land caused by plowing of goddess. (Cf. A901.) A951
• Contours of land caused by rooting of swine. A951.2
• Contours of land caused by occult hero driving harrow. A951.3
• Mountains fight each other: cause of their present shape. A964.2
• Hills because sky asked earth to wrinkle up its feet. A969.4
• Holes in stones caused by piercing by saint's finger. A972.3
• Holes in stone caused by saint (warrior). A972.3.1
• Rocks or hill-tops flat because persons (gods) slept or cooked on them. A972.5.5
• Hole in stone caused by weapon of warrior. A972.5.6
• Indentions on rocks caused by giants. A972.6
• Bridge of the Gods. A conflict of the gods breaks a primeval bridge and thus causes a rapid in a river (the Columbia River at The Dalles, Oregon). A986
• Flood partially caused by breaking forth of springs. A1011.1
• Flood caused by rising of river. A1011.2
• Flood caused by loosing fairy horse and allowing it to stale. A1012.2.1
• Vomiting of a whale causes flood. A1013.1
• Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.) A1015
• Spirit causes deluge. A1015.2
• Flood caused by deity stamping on floor of heavens. A1015.3
• Flood caused by melting of ice after great spell of cold. A1016.3
• Making mountains out of flat earth causes flood. A1016.5
• Moon falls into sea and causes flood by overflowing. A1016.6
• Flood caused to satisfy emotional need. A1017
• Desire of man for sun causes flood. A1017.1
• Flood caused by prayer. A1017.2
• Flood caused by curse. A1017.3
• Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers. A1019.2
• Flood because earth has become too thickly populated. A1019.3
• Causes of world-fire. A1031
• Fall of sun causes world-fire. A1031.4
• World-fire because of man's arrogance. A1031.5
• Fettered monster's escape at end of world. Giant, or monster, is fettered in depths of the earth. His movement causes earthquakes. When he succeeds in freeing himself from the fetters and escapes, the world will end. A1070
• Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt ship. A1115.1
• Breathing of deity (spirit) causes winds. A1121
• Winds caused by flapping wings. A giant bird causes the wind with his wings. The wings are cut by the culture hero so that the bird cannot flap so hard. A1125
• Wind caused by flapping of ears of giant. A1125.1
• Wind caused by wind-god's movements. When the son of the wind lies down, the wind blows. A1126
• South wind causes heat and hurricanes. A1127.1.2
• Causes of hot weather: God bores hole in hell. A1137
• Thunder caused by God beating his weapon. A1142.5.1
• Cause of thunder: sounds of the horses' hoofs as gods play ball. A1142.6
• Cause of earthquakes. A1145
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• Causes of seasons – deities push sun back and forth at solstices. A1157
• Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle. A1174.4
• Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin. A1331
• Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346). A1331.1
• Paradise lost because of forbidden food. A1331.1.1
• Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest. A1331.2
• Paradise lost because first woman is seduced. A1331.2.1
• Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages. A1333
• Origin of death because world is overpopulated. A1335.8
• Origin of death because people weary of living. A1335.9
• Men die because a snake comes to prey on mankind while creator rests. A1335.10
• Disease caused by the gods. A1337.0.1
• Disease caused by ghosts. A1337.0.2
• Disease caused by witchcraft. A1337.0.3
• Disease caused by menstrual blood. (Cf. D1003.) A1337.0.4
• Origin of menstruation – Eve and the serpent. It is a punishment because Eve had intercourse with the serpent. A1355.1
• Origin of menstruation – punishment because Eve ate forbidden fruit. A1355.1.1