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

• City of gods (God). A151.5
• Deity promises to restore city. A185.8
• City-gods. A412
• Saint sees vision of three cities in heaven: a city of gold, a city of silver, a city of glass. A661.1.2
• Whole tribe descended from lone woman-survivor of doomed city. A1006.7
• Wild animals lose their ferocity through fear of Behemoth. A2294
• Wild animals lose their ferocity. A2531.0.1
• Dragon encircles city with its tail. B11.2.8.1
• City founded on spot where cow lies down. B155.2
• Pursued animal indicates where city is to be built. B155.2.4
• Lions placed in city to prevent entrance. B847
• City's inhabitants transformed to fish. Different classes to different colored fish. D692
• Magic arrow shot to determine where to build city. (Cf. D1314.4.) D1314.1.2
• Golden staff stuck into ground finds site for city. D1314.2.6
• Brass (copper) statue at city gates blows on trumpet at stranger's approach. D1317.9.1
• Charm which makes inhabitants of city faint-hearted. (Cf. D1273.) D1351.4
• Magic object protects a city. D1380.0.1
• Palladium. City impregnable while statue remains. (Cf. D1268.) D1380.0.1.1
• Charm expels flies from city. (Cf. D1273.) D1443.1
• City populated by wooden automata. D1628
• Woman loses her magic power when she loses her simplicity and humility. D1749.2
• Pious man in city renders it invulnerable. D1846.5.2
• Fairy gains entrance to locked city. D2088.1
• City built by magic. D2178.1
• Wild hunt appears over city. E501.12.9
• City of women. (Cf. F566.2.) F112.2
• City of demons. F402.3
• Strong man carries off city gates. F631.2
• City of precious metals and stones. F761
• City of gold. (Cf. F771.1.1.) F761.1
• City with hundred palaces and gardens; in one everything is of gold, in another, silver, etc. F761.1.1
• City of brass. F761.2
• City of onyx. F761.3
• City of jewels. F761.4
• City of emerald. F761.4.1
• City paved with precious seeds. F761.5
• City paved with seeds of gold. F761.5.1
• City paved with seeds of silver. F761.5.2
• City paved with seeds of brass. F761.5.3
• City of extraordinary color. F762
• Green city. F762.1
• City of fire. (Cf. F702, F753, F756.1, F771.1.11, F785.3.) F763
• Underground city. F764
• City inside a tree. (Cf. F811.) F765
• Deserted city. Inhabitants have been devoured. F766
• Inaccessible city. F767
• Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable. F767.1
• City protected by red-hot iron floor around it. F767.2
• City inaccessible to death. F767.3
• City of extraordinary people. F768
• City of petrified people. F768.1
• City of enchanted people. F768.2
• City of elephants. F769.3
• City sinks in the sea. F944
• City sinks in sea or lake as punishment. F944.1
• City is buried under sand. F948.5
• Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures. F958
• City infested by jinns deserted. G307.4
• Ogre's head and hands cut off and hung above city gate. G512.1.2.1
• Ogress attracted by scent of sugar cane ravages city. G677
• Traveler says he is going to the city to see what has become of the seed he sowed in the street. (What has become of the girl he left in the city to await his return.) H586.2
• Task: bringing documents from distant city in one day. H1107
• Task: exterminating mice infesting city in three days. H1109.4
• Task: building palace and city. H1133.5
• Task: ridding city of thieves. H1199.9
• Test of patience: those who wish to enter city gate must endure insults of old men there who mock them. H1553.3
• Old man contented till forbidden to leave city. Immediately disobeys. H1557.3
• Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
• Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be. J31
• Ruler learns lesson from seeing city governed by king as uncharitable as he. J56.1
• Barber leaves inexpensive village for high wages in city. Finds cost of living more than enough to take all his profit. J342.1
• Scarcity of real friends. J401
• Intemperate pugnacity. J552
• Monkeys planning to found a city desist lest with walls up it will be easier to catch them than before. J648.1
• City without provisions but with much money starves. J712.1
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• Magistrate detects thief's complicity by associating cut hand with companion's severed head. J1149.8
• King cannot destroy the city. A philosopher of the city came to him asking mercy for it King said he would do nothing he asked. Philosopher then asked him to destroy the city. This saves the city. J1289.10
• Pot full of milk as sign that city is full of fakirs; flower on top of milk not disturbing it as sign that one more will not matter. J1293.4
• The hay wagon and the gate. A parson arriving late at a city gate asks if he can get in. Guard sees that he is fat and in fun says that he doesn't know. The parson: "Why not; doesn't the hay wagon get in?" J1411
• The fools in the city. Man ordered to number the fools in the city replies, "It is easier to number the wise men." J1443
• They gave it away themselves. A wandering actor rewarded by a city with a coat of their color gambles it away. When upbraided about giving away their present he replies that they hadn't wanted to keep it themselves. J1444
• The besieged women's dearest possession. (Women of Weinsberg.) Permitted to carry from the city their dearest possession, they take their husbands. J1545.4.1
• The city person ignorant of the farm. J1731
• The city girl: Do turnips grow in the ground or on trees? J1731.1
• Evangelium secundum Pergamum. Pergamus, a rival city of Luca, objects to the reading of the Evangelium secundum Lucam, insisting that it be "secundum Pergamum". J1741.1
• Peasants in city inn order whole portion of mustard. J1742.3
• Countryman visiting rich relative in the city refuses to eat dessert: "No, I am not hungry." J1742.3.1
• Countryman misunderstands comforts of city. Thinks latrine is kitchen, refuses to take a walk because he fears high houses will fall upon him, etc. J1742.5
• Boots sent by telegraph. A peasant hangs boots and an accompanying letter on a telegraph wire, expecting them to reach the city. J1935.1
• God blamed for scarcity of food. J2215.4.1
• The local moon. Numskull greets old moon as if it were new. "I haven't seen it before, for I have just come to the city." (Each town thought to have a different moon.) J2271.1
• A ribbon long enough to reach from ear to ear. The rascal has had an ear cut off and this is in a distant city. K195
• Entry by master thief into closely guarded city in wood-gatherer's basket. K312.2
• Escape by false prophecy: if corpses are buried in city, it will become a ruin: king releases condemned man. K575
• Murder feigned to effect escape. Knight is refused permission to leave city. He rushes to city gates and pretends that he has just killed a public enemy. Is aided in his escape. K579.6
• Trojan wooden horse. Permits capture of the city by concealing soldiers. K754.1
• Incognito king is given hospitality by fisherman. Rewards him with a city. K1812.4
• Companions separated by illusory city. K1886.5
• Mother-in-law's head is shaven, face blackened and she is led around city on ass-back as only cure for malady of daughter-in-law. K1945.1.1