23 motifs match “chimney”  ·  back to the chapters

• Cat helps man build house: may occupy chimney corner. (Cf. A2233.2, A2433.3.1.) A2223.1
• Why cat keeps chimney-corner. (Cf. A2223.1.) A2433.3.1.1
• Man calls on devil to descend chimney when angry at wife. The devil comes, makes pudding black. C12.5.5
• Tabu: looking up chimney. C337
• Magic object found in chimney. D847
• Fairies descend chimney. F275
• Thumbling carried up chimney by steam of food. F535.1.1.2
• Witch enters and leaves house by chimney. (Cf. F275, G242.1.) G249.3
• Witch steals child with hand through chimney. (Cf. G369.5.) G261.1
• Devil detected, goes up chimney in smoke. G303.17.2.1
• Ogre (demon) with long arm (demon hand) which is thrust down chimney (through door, etc.) G369.5
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?" H1411.1
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where horse carcass drops down chimney. H1411.1.1
• Recognition of good health by smoke rising from chimney. H1582.2
• Numskull ties the rope to his leg as the cow grazes on the roof. The cow falls off and the man is pulled up the chimney. J2132.2
• Intruding wolf falls down chimney and kills himself. J2133.7
• Theft through chimney. K316
• Theft from giant by fishing through chimney. K316.1
• Intruder captured in chimney. Burned. K732
• Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself. K891.1
• Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). K1521.1
• Miserly husband spies on wife to see that she does not eat too much. Gets burned in the chimney and beaten in the bed where he hides. W153.2
• Lie: country so steep that people look up chimney to see when the cows come home. X1523.1