32 motifs match “child's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Cat sucks sleeping child's breath. B766.2
• Crying induced by magic as trick to force child's mother. D2034
• Evil eye averted by swinging cat over child's cradle. D2071.1.2
• Witch burns her child's legs for wood, then covers child with sheet and child is whole. D2161.3.3.1
• Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.) E324
• Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. F312
• Storm signs betray newly born child's chiefly rank. F960.1.1.3
• Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.2
• Witch sucks blood from woman's or child's breasts. G262.1.2
• Person removes string with thirteen knots from child's mouth. G271.10
• Test of child's innocence: onyx stone and coal of fire offered. (Cf. H501.) H256.1
• Mother test: milk goes long distance into child's mouth. H495.2
• Wisdom of child decides lawsuit. King in disguise sees child's game which represents the case. J123
• Adulteress betrayed by little child's remark. J125.2
• Barber operating on child's skin kills it: blames mother for child's thin skin. J1166.1
• Child's stomach split open to cure him of wandering. J1842.4
• Foolish mother does not understand how babies cry. Wrings the child's neck. J1911.2
• Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
• Fool believes gold in bag turns to ashes because of child's urinating on it. Actually bag contained only ashes. J2325.1
• Literal numskull laughs at his child's death. J2461.3
• Fool takes threat to child as an order. Cuts off child's ears. J2465.11
• Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
• Child's song incriminates thief. K435
• Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him. K1923.2
• Old Woman, "völva", prophesies at child's birth. M301.2.2
• Three fates, "norns", prophesy at child's birth. M301.12
• Child's song reveals murder. N271.6.1
• Father plans child's death. S11.4
• Child's finger-ends cut off to give long life. S161.1.1
• Child's ankles pierced before exposing him. S333
• Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot). T318
• Life story in ten hours: "At one I was born .... at ten my child's soul was crowned in heaven." Z24.1.1