94 motifs match “changes”  ·  back to the chapters

• Deity changes decision. A196.2.1
• Changes in the earth. A850
• Topographical changes or landmarks due to battle between gods. A901.1
• Of ten original men one magically changes sex. A1275.3
• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Rhinoceros exchanges his red hide for hippopotamus's black. (Cf. A2411.1.6.2., A2411.1.6.7.) A2247.3
• God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.) A2286.2.4
• Origin of magpie's feathers. Exchanges with dove. (Cf. A2247.) A2313.2
• God changes nature of plant to punish wastefulness of man: yield of plant is decreased. A2723.2
• Wedding of fox and hyena. Fox refuses to marry hyena, since, according to belief, hyena yearly changes sex. B281.1
• The courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.) B282.23
• Animals grateful for being given appropriate food. Hero finds dog with hay and horse with meat. He changes it about. B392.1
• Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black. B731.4
• Animal changes sex periodically. B754.1
• Hyena changes sex yearly. B754.1.1
• Hare changes sex periodically. B754.1.2
• Physical changes in person because of broken tabu. C985
• Skin changes color because of broken tabu. (Cf. C94.3.) C985.1
• Girl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him. D45.4
• Magic changes in man himself. D50
• Giant changes to normal size. D55.2.3
• Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form. D113.1.1
• Stick thrust in ground changes into spirit hut. D451.6.2
• Christ asks woman what she is cooking; she replies that she is boiling stones to make her children think they are peas and that they will have food. Christ changes the stones to peas. D452.1.6.1
• Spittle changes to blood. D474.7
• Spirit changes to animal. D493
• Person changes size at will. D631.1
• Person changes appearance at will. D631.1.1
• Creature born from egg changes size at will. D631.4.4
• Transformation to cure inconstant husband. He falls in love with another woman: his wife changes him to negro. He then falls in love with negress: wife changes him to ass. He then falls in love with she-ass. Finally restored to his original form. D662
• Magic mantle changes color hourly. D682.4.1
• Magic object exchanged for worthless. Foolish brother (wife) exchanges old object for new. D871.1
• Magic object produces miscellaneous physical changes in persons or things. D1349
• Magic object changes person's disposition. D1350
• Magic veil changes enmity into peacefulness. (Cf. D1061.) D1351.3
• Magic object changes person's disposition – miscellaneous. D1359
• Magic object changes person's size. D1377
• Magic comb changes person's size at will. (Cf. D1072.1.) D1377.1
• Magic object produces miscellaneous temporary changes in persons, animals, or objects. D1379
• Stone changes from red to green as auspicious sign. (Cf. D1293.1, D1293.2, D1317.12.) D1812.5.0.14
• Woman changes into an immortal. D1850.2
• Saint changes vicious king's heart to peaceful thoughts. D2163.5.2
• Life Index. Object or animal has mystic connection with person. Changes in one correspond to changes in the other. E760
• Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death. E761
• Life token: blood changes color. E761.1.6
• Substituted hand. Man exchanges his hand for that of another. E782.1.1
• Horse used by mortal under fairy spell changes to gray cat. F234.4.1
• Sea rises and changes place. F931.1
• Sea changes color. F931.7
• Winter's day changes to summer's day at saint's funeral. F960.2.6
• Person changes color. F1082
• Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. G11.6.1
• God changes an angel into the devil, because he tried to imitate God in creating the world. G303.1.1.3
• Devil changes shape. G303.3.5
• Oath taken before image. If oath is false the image turns around (or changes color). H251.3.5
• Discontented ass longs for death but changes mind when he sees skins of dead asses at a fair. J217.2
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Stingy innkeeper cured of serving weak beer. She always gives the servants a pitcher of weak beer before meals so as to fill them up. One of them: "I wash out my insides so as to have more room for food." She changes her practice. J1341.7
• Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." J1561.3
• Fool exchanges his wife with ox; thinks something to be wrong with her head (she has been marked with red at the parting of her hair). J2081.3
• Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. J2099.1
• The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. J2241
• Fool's talking to himself thought to be inappropriate greetings. He keeps repeating a word to remember it but changes it so that it seems to refer unfavorably to people whom he meets. J2671.2.1
• Trickster, as watchman, exchanges worthless bag for bag of gold at night. K126
• New bags for old! Recovery of the old bag (containing money or having magic power) which the stupid wife has given away. The husband exchanges a new bag for it. K266
• Blind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticks. K333.4
• Thief tricked into robbing himself. He has placed a coat on the goods to be stolen. His associate changes the place of the coat. K439.3
• While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
• Executioner kept busy or interested until rescue comes. Sometimes until he changes his mind. K555
• Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again. K1132
• Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard. K1371.3
• Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock. K1456
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• 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
• Bluff: insult repeated as harmless remark. The trickster makes an insulting remark, but when called on to repeat what he said he changes it so as to turn aside wrath. K1775
• Girl marries lover who thought her dead. On reviving she changes her name and disguises her appearance. Eventually marries her former lover. K1839.2
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• Sham miracle: wallet (bee-hive) changes to wasps. Tricksters put a wasp nest in the wallet (bee-hive). When the master claims it they give it to him with the curse, "May it turn to wasps!" It does. K1975.1
• Oversensitive bride pleads a headache (or other excuse). Groom retaliates with similar plea when she changes her mind. K2052.3
• Saint changes places with charioteer; latter is killed. N338.1
• Money (treasure) unwittingly given away. Unlucky man given a loaf which is filled with gold exchanges it for another loaf. N351
• Mistress expecting lover accidentally exchanges places with her maidservant. N391.1
• 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
• In answer to maiden's prayer saint changes boat's course and guides it to another place. T321.6
• Prayer of sinner changes his color from black into white. V52.11
• Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones. V222.15
• Saint exchanges coat with beggar: gold sleeves miraculously appear. V411.2
• Bishop exchanges places with prisoner so as to have him return to his mother. W16
• Lies about changes in weather. X1606
• Boy changes self to nut; fowl eats nut; bush cat eats fowl; dog eats cat; dog swallowed by python. Z43.5
• Series of trick exchanges. Z47
• Series of trick exchanges: razor – pot – bride – drum by tricky fox. Fox sings formula of exchanges. Z47.1