386 motifs match “children” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Deity has snake-children. A132.1.1
• A woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and water. A700.3
• Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children. A700.8
• Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two. A736.1.4.1
• Moon kills sun's children. A736.1.4.1.1
• Children of the sun. A736.5
• Children from union with the sun turn into bit of blood in daytime as soon as they are exposed to sun; take human form (shape) again at sunset. A736.5.2
• Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. A737.4
• Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
• Two children in moon with yoke and bucket. A751.7
• Stars as children of the moon. Cook Zeus I 523 n. 6. A764.1
• Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day. A764.1.1
• Sun eats all his own children except morning star, while moon keeps all her children in hiding. A764.1.2
• Stars as children of sun and moon. A764.1.3
• Most brilliant stars children of the sun; others are children of the moon. A764.3
• Pleiades seven illegitimate children. A773.4
• Rivers formed where certain stones are placed. Each of seven children are to go in a different direction, to walk a mile and put down a stone, then another mile and a stone, etc. Thus rivers are formed. A934.2
• Winds as children of titans (giants). A1123
• Thunder from thunder-spirit beating his children. A1142.5.1.2
• First parents children of god. A1271.3
• Primeval human pair allowed to bear all children they wish. A1277.2
• First man and woman bring in children and clothe them. A1277.4
• Why children learn to walk later than animals. A1321.1
• Culture hero teaches women how to rear their children. A1357
• Why children are helpless for so long. A1361
• Origin of fire – children strike rocks together, accidentally produce fire. A1414.3
• Brother-sister marriage of children of first parents. A1552.3
• Parents learn how to wean their children. A1566
• Origin of relation of mother and children. A1575
• Why a mother has prior claim on her children. A1575.1
• Origin of code of conduct for parents toward children of polygamous marriage. A1576
• Why children are not left alone in the house to sleep. A1579.1
• The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
• Monkeys from children hidden by Eve when God visited her. (Cf. A1650.1, A1710.) A1861.1
• Toad refuses to weep over its dead children: dries up when dead. Cursed by Virgin Mary. (Cf. A2234.4, A2468.2.) A2231.8
• Catfish transformed from children still carry marks of children's knife holder. A2261.3.1
• Bustard persuaded to kill all but two children: has but two eggs. (Cf. A2486.2.) A2284.2
• Squirrel's call: asks whether viper (who ate up his children) is his friend. A2426.1.2.1
• Why bees eat their own children. A2435.5.1.1
• Dragon devours children. B11.10.3
• Mermaids from Pharoah's children. They were drowned in the Red Sea. B81.1
• Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock. B381.1
• Cow as nurse cares for children. B535.0.1
• Bandicoot (large rat) as nurse. Cares for children. B535.0.2
• Animal nurses fight with real parent for children. B535.2
• Helpful horse rescues children. B540.2
• Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. B631.3
• Tigress bears men-children. B631.6
• Wolf strongly attracted to his own children. B751.6
• Tabu: telling children about lake monster. C423.6
• Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe). C452
• Tabu: wiping children with bread. C851.1.1
• Tabu: abusing women or children. C867.1
• Tabu: bearded men abusing women and children. C867.1.0.1
• Death of children for breaking tabu. C920.1
• Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu. C930.1
• Transformation: children into horsemen. D98
• 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
• Despondent mother curses herself and children into trees. D525.1
• Man transformed to woman has children. D695
• Children disenchanted after long period are aged. D799.1
• Magic charm (formula) used injudiciously brings death to owner's wife, children, himself. D806.2
• Milk of two king's children protects hero in dragon fight. (Cf. B11.11, D1043.) D1385.14
• Magic storm protects hidden children. (Cf. D905.) D1393.3
• Blood of children (innocent maidens) as cure for leprosy. D1502.4.2.1
• Magic power of children. D1717
• Mouse's prayer to gods about her children granted. D1766.1.6
• Song (crónán) used to lull children to sleep. D1962.4.2
• Power of flying from eating children's hearts. D2135.1
• Cure by putting children on roof (in oven). D2161.4.11
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Return from dead to demand stolen children. E236.2
• Dead wife returns and bears children for husband. E322.1
• Dead mother returns to aid persecuted children. E323.2
• Dead mother (in animal form) returns to aid persecuted children. E323.2.1
• Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church. E415.2
• Ghost laid by baptizing children in its presence. E443.6
• Unbaptized children in wild hunt. E501.2.7
• Unbaptized children pursued in wild hunt. E501.5.4
• Wraith of dying woman goes to see children for last time before death. E723.4.4
• Dead children invited to eat at God's table. E754.2.4
• Fairies are the size of small children. F239.4.2
• Unbaptized children as fairies. F251.3
• Underworld people from children which Eve hid from God. F251.4
• Fairies are not the children of Adam. F251.10
• Fairies and human children. F310
• Fairies comb children's hair. F313
• Charms against theft of children by fairies. F321.2
• Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her children. F322.3
• Fairy grateful to mortal for saving children's life. F337.1
• Fairies pursue unbaptized children. F360.1
• Fairies bathe children in churn when housewife forgets to leave a supply of clear water for the fairies. F361.17.5
• Fairies admit calves to cows, depriving children of milk. F366.1.2
• Water-spirits lure children into water, offering objects. F420.5.2.1.2
• Water-spirit drags children into river. F420.5.2.1.5
• Water-spirits steal children and leave changeling. F420.5.2.4
• Murderer's children become dwarfs. F451.1.2
• Dwarf children are hungry. F451.3.5.3
• Dwarf women bear children. F451.3.5.5
• Dwarfs exchange children in cradle. F451.5.2.3